Psalms 56:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? ”

Psalms 56:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou tellest my wanderings - Thou dost “number” or “recount” them; that is, in thy own mind. Thou dost keep an account of them; thou dost notice me as I am driven from one place to another to fin...
Psalms 56:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my (g) tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book? (g) If God stores the tears of his saints, much more will he remember their blood, to avenge it: and th...
Psalms 56:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LVI. A Prayer against Strong, Numerous, and Crafty Foes. Psalms 56:2 . For enemies read they that lie in wait for me ( mg.), proudly: read bitterly. Psalms 56:4 . Will praise his word, i....
Psalms 56:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

tellest . recordest. wanderings... bottle. Figure of speech Paronomasia. App-6. Hebrew. nodi... ben'odeka. Thy bottle. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. Tears of mourners were thu...
Psalms 56:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. Thou hast taken account of my wanderings The words run in the form of an abrupt prayer. Having begun by requesting God to consider his tears, suddenly, as if he had obtained what he asked...
Psalms 56:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? Thou tellest my wanderings - Thou seest how often I am obliged to shift the place of my retreat. I am hunted...
Psalms 56:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou tellest my wanderings— David's whole life, from his victory over Goliath till the death of Saul, was almost entirely spent in wandering from place to place. He was now in exile at Gath; he com...
Psalms 56:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? Thou tellest my wanderings - i:e., Thou takest note of my movements in 'my flight' from my home and co...
Psalms 56:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Title.—( RV ) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David: Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.' For Michtam see on Psalms 16 . Jonath elem rehokim ('the dov...
Psalms 56:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Wanderings. — Rather, in the singular, wandering, which, from the parallelism with “tears,” must mean “mental restlessness,” the “tossings to and fro of the mind.” Symmachus, “my inmost things.”...
Psalms 56:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 56:1-13 THE superscription dates this psalm from the time of David's being in Gath. Probably his first stay there is meant, during which he had recourse to feigned insanity in order to secu...
Psalms 56:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“What Can Man Do unto Me?” Psalms 56:1-13 This psalm was composed under the same circumstances as Psalms 34:1-22 . See 1 Samuel 21:1-15 . What a strange medley is here shown-David feigning ma...
Psalms 56:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The keynote of this psalm is the concluding declaration of the previous one, "I will trust in Thee." Here again are evident the same circumstances of oppression (verses Psa 56:5-7). The song opens an...
Psalms 56:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a sweet thought is here suggested of God's remembrance of his people's affliction! It is an interesting figure of speech, of bottling their tears: but the sense is, they are remembered. And woe...
Psalms 56:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘HE CARETH FOR YOU’ ‘Thou tellest my wanderings: put Thou my tears into Thy bottle: are they not in Thy book?’ Psalms 56:8 I. The human side of life. —It is described under two forms: wander...
Psalms 56:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou tellest my wanderings ,.... Not his sins; though these are aberrations or wanderings from the ways of God's commandments; yet these are not told by the Lord: he takes no account of them; the nu...
Psalms 56:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book? Ver. 8. Thou tellest my wanderings ] Or, thou cipherest up my flittings, and hast them in numerato, rea...
Psalms 56:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou tellest my wanderings “Thou art perfectly acquainted, I am sure, how often I have been forced to flee, like a vagabond, from place to place; which hath cost me many a tear. Good Lord, preserve...
Psalms 56:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Comfort under Affliction; Confidence in God. 8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they...
Psalms 56:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My wanderings: here I have been hunted from place to place, and am now driven hither. Put my tears into thy bottle; regard, and remember, and pity them. Are they not in thy book? but why do I p...
Psalms 56:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

An Expression Of His Trust In God In The Face Of His Enemies ( Psalms 56:8-11 ). His confidence lies in the fact that he knows that he is the chosen of YHWH, that God is keeping count of his wande...
Psalms 56:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the Chief Musician upon Jonath-Elem-Rechokim.” The phrase “ Jonath-Elem-Rechokim ” occurs nowhere else in the Bible; and Biblical critics are by no means agreed as...
Psalms 56:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 56:8 I. The human side of life. It is described under two forms: wandering and tears; and the division, though brief, is very comprehensive. Life has its active part in wanderings, its pass...
Psalms 56:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 56:1 . Be merciful unto me, O God for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. «Man has no mercy upon me, but, O God, be thou merciful unto me! If thy justice doth for a w...
Psalms 56:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The title of this psalm, which relates to the manner of singing and playing, is upon the remote and silent dove. To which michtam is added, the golden ode of David. In the LXX, the title of this an...
Psalms 56:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up. The deprecable and the desirable I. The deprecable in relation to man. 1. Craven-heartedness. A man whose heart is morally sound is b...
Psalms 56:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS and the following have been called "twin psalms." They begin with the same words, are nearly of the same length, and have each a refrain which divides them into two portions. F...
Psalms 56:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Comfort in the Midst of Persecution. To the chief musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, the word not only denoting the melody according to which the hymn was to be sung, "The dove of silence of dista...
Psalms 56:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 19:18 ; 1 Samuel 22:1-5 ; 1 Samuel 27:1 ; 2 Corinthians 11:26 ; 2 Kings 20:5 ; Hebrews 11:13 ; Hebrews 11:38 ; Hebrews 11:8 ; Isaiah 63:9 ; Job 16:20 ; Malachi 3:16 ; Matthew 10:...
Psalms 56:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Wanderings — How I have been hunted from place to place. Put — Regard and pity them. Are they not — But why do I pray to God to do that which he hath already done?

Psalms 56:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 56:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 56:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 56:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 56:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 56:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 56:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 56:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 56:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 56:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 56:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 56:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 56:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 56:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 56:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 56:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 56:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 56:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes