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Psalm 56

Psa. 56:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou tellest
caphar (Hebrew #5608)
properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate
KJV usage: commune, (ac-)count; declare, number, + penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
Pronounce: saw-far'
Origin: a primitive root
my wanderings
nowd (Hebrew #5112)
from 5110; exile
KJV usage: wandering.
Pronounce: node
Origin: (only defect. nod {node})
: put
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
thou my tears
dim`ah (Hebrew #1832)
weeping
KJV usage: tears.
Pronounce: dim-aw'
Origin: feminine of 1831
into thy bottle
no'd (Hebrew #4997)
also (feminine) no)dah {no-daw'}; from an unused root of uncertain signification; a (skin or leather) bag (for fluids)
KJV usage: bottle.
Pronounce: node
Origin: or noywd {node}
: are they not in thy book
cepher (Hebrew #5612)
from 5608; properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book
KJV usage: bill, book, evidence, X learn(-ed) (-ing), letter, register, scroll.
Pronounce: say'-fer
Origin: or (feminine) ciphrah (Psa. 56:8 (9)) {sif-raw'}
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Mal. 3:16• 16Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. (Mal. 3:16)

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Ministry on This Verse

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tellest.
Psa. 105:13‑14• 13When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
 14He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; (Psa. 105:13‑14)
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Psa. 121:8• 8The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. (Psa. 121:8)
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Num. 33:2‑56• 2And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
 3And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
 4For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the Lord had smitten among them: upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
 5And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
 6And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
 7And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
 8And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
 9And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
 10And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
 11And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
 12And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
 13And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
 14And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
 15And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
 16And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
 17And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
 18And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
 19And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez.
 20And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah.
 21And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
 22And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
 23And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
 24And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
 25And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
 26And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
 27And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
 28And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
 29And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
 30And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
 31And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan.
 32And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.
 33And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
 34And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
 35And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber.
 36And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
 37And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
 38And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
 39And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
 40And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
 41And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
 42And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
 43And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
 44And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
 45And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
 46And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
 47And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
 48And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
 49And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
 50And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
 51Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
 52Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
 53And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
 54And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
 55But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
 56Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them. (Num. 33:2‑56)
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1 Sam. 19:18• 18So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. (1 Sam. 19:18)
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1 Sam. 22:1‑5• 1David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
 2And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
 3And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
 4And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
 5And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth. (1 Sam. 22:1‑5)
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1 Sam. 27:1• 1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. (1 Sam. 27:1)
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Isa. 63:9• 9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. (Isa. 63:9)
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2 Cor. 11:26• 26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; (2 Cor. 11:26)
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Heb. 11:8,13,38• 8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
 13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
 38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. (Heb. 11:8,13,38)
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Psa. 39:12• 12Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. (Psa. 39:12)
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Psa. 126:5‑6• 5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
 6He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. (Psa. 126:5‑6)
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2 Kings 20:5• 5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord. (2 Kings 20:5)
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Job 16:20• 20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. (Job 16:20)
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Rev. 7:17• 17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. (Rev. 7:17)
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Psa. 139:16• 16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. (Psa. 139:16)
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Mal. 3:16• 16Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. (Mal. 3:16)
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Matt. 10:30• 30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Matt. 10:30)
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Rev. 20:12• 12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. (Rev. 20:12)
• Every sorrow of the saint is in His book. It is a blessed thought. So the heart confides in Him and knows that when it cries to Him all its enemies will be turned back. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 55-58” by J.N. Darby)
• In contrast to the treatment at the hands of the wicked, God counts every step that His people have to take, keeps a bottle for their tears, and a book wherein to record their sorrows. (“Psalms 56” by H. Smith)
• The wandering remnant (vs. 8) continue to feel oppression from both their apostate brethren and the Gentiles. (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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*Thou* countestb my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottlec: are they not in thy book?

JND Translation Notes

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Or "recountest."
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There is a paronomasia in this verse with Nod, "wandering," and N�d, "bottle" (i.e. a leathern sack).