Psalm 56:8 {55:9}
Good News Translation
You know how troubled I am; you have kept a record of my tears. Aren't they listed in your book?

New Revised Standard Version
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record?

Contemporary English Version
You have kept record of my days of wandering. You have stored my tears in your bottle and counted each of them.

New American Bible
My wanderings you have noted; are my tears not stored in your flask, recorded in your book?

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.

tellest

Psalm 105:13,14 And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. . . .

Psalm 121:8 May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.

Numbers 33:2 Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord.

1 Samuel 19:18 But David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, and told him all that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and dwelt in Najoth.

1 Samuel 22:1-5 David therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of Odollam. And when his brethren, and all his father's house, had heard of it, they went down to him thither. . . .

1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.

Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

2 Corinthians 11:26 In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren:

Hebrews 11:8,13,38 By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went. . . .

put

Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. . . .

2 Kings 20:5 Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.

Job 16:20 My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule them and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

are they

Psalm 139:16 Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the Lord, spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

Matthew 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Context
Be Merciful to Me, O God
7For nothing shalt thou save them: in thy anger thou shalt break the people in pieces. O God, 8I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy sight, As also in thy promise.9Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.…
Cross References
2 Kings 20:5
Go back, and tell Ezechias, the captain of my people: Thus saith the Lord, the God of David, thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: and behold I have healed thee: on the third day thou shalt go up to the temple of the Lord.

Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 139:3
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.

Psalm 139:16
Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

Malachi 3:16
Then they that feared the Lord, spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

Psalm 56:7
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