Psalm 56:8 - Easy To Read Version You know I am very upset.\par You know how much I have cried.\par Surely you have kept an account\par of all my tears.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou tellest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle: Are they not in thy book? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You number and record my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle–are they not in Your book? American Standard Version (1901) Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book? Common English Bible You yourself have kept track of my misery. Put my tears into your bottle— aren’t they on your scroll already? Catholic Public Domain Version My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will Sing, and rehearse a psalm. |
“Go back and speak to Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Tell him, ‘The Lord, the God of your ancestor [244] David says: I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. So I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to the temple of the Lord.
The Lord will help as you come and go. {\cf2\super [610]} \par The Lord will help you now and forever!\par
You watched my body parts grow.\par You listed them all in your book.\par You watched me every day.\par Not one of them \{is missing\}.\par
Lord, hear my prayer!\par Listen to the words I cry to you.\par Look at my tears.\par I am only a traveler\par passing through this life with you.\par Like all my ancestors, I live here only\par a short time. {\cf2\super [241]} \par
The people had many troubles,\par but the Lord was not against them.\par The Lord loved the people\par and felt sorry for them.\par So the Lord saved them.\par He sent his special angel to save them.\par He picked them up and carried them,\par and \{he will take care of them\} forever.\par
Lord, you know about their plans\par to kill me.\par Don’t forgive their crimes.\par Don’t erase their sins.\par Destroy my enemies!\par Punish those people while you are angry!\par
God’s followers spoke with each other, and the Lord listened to them. There is a book in front of him. In that book are the names of God’s followers. Those are the people that honor the Lord’s name.
I have traveled many, many times. And I have been in danger from rivers, from thieves, from my own people (the Jews), and from people who are not Jews. I have been in danger in cities, in places where no people live, and on the sea. And I have been in danger with people who say they are brothers, but are really not brothers.
All those great men continued living with faith until they died. Those men did not get the things that God promised his people. The men only saw those things coming far in the future and were glad. Those men accepted the fact that they were like visitors and strangers on earth.
The world was not good enough for these great people. These people wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and holes in the ground.
God called Abraham to travel to another place that God promised to give Abraham. Abraham did not know where that other place was. But Abraham obeyed God and started traveling, because Abraham had faith.
And I saw the people that had died, great and small, standing before the throne. And the book of life was opened. There were also other books opened. These dead people were judged by the things they had done. These things are written in the books.
The Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to springs of water that give life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
David escaped and ran away to Samuel at Ramah. David told Samuel everything that Saul had done to him. Then David and Samuel went to the camps {where the prophets stayed}. David stayed there.
But David thought to himself, “Saul will catch me some day. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up looking for me in Israel. That way I will escape from Saul.”