Be Merciful to Me, O God
Psalms 56:8
In 11 translations
- BSB
- You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?Or sorrows
- KJV
- Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
- WEB
- You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
- ASV
- Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?
- LSV
- You have counted my wandering, || You place my tear in Your bottle, || Are they not in Your scroll?
- YLT
- My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou — place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?
- DBY
- Thou countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
- DRC55:9
- I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set my tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.
- GNV
- Thou hast counted my wandrings: put my teares into thy bottel: are they not in thy register?
- JPS56:9
- Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?
- LXXE55:9
- O God, I have declared my life to thee; thou hast set my tears before thee, even according to thy promise.
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Original-language editions
- WLC56:9
- נֹדִי֮ סָפַ֪רְתָּ֫ה אָ֥תָּה שִׂ֣ימָה דִמְעָתִ֣י בְנֹאדֶ֑ךָ הֲ֝לֹ֗א בְּסִפְרָתֶֽךָ׃KJV:Ps.56.8
- LXX-Br55:9
- τὴν ζωήν μου ἐξήγγειλά σοι, ἔθου τὰ δάκρυά μου ἐνώπιόν σου, ὡς καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπαγγελίᾳ σου.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 2 Kings 20:5“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now…
- Malachi 3:16At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
- Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Revelation 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
- Psalms 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
- Matthew 10:30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
- Psalms 139:16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
- Psalms 121:8The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
- Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
- Isaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
- Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
- Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
- Psalms 105:13–14they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another. He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:
- 1 Samuel 22:1–5So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented…
- Hebrews 11:38The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
- Numbers 33:2–56At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points: On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out…
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 56:9 in some Bibles
- 56:8 in most Bibles