“Return, and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, thus says Adonai, the God of your father David: ‘I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Behold, I am going to heal you. On the third day you will go up to the House of Adonai.
Psalm 56:8 - Tree of Life Version In spite of such sin, will they escape? In fierce anger, O God, cast down such people! 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. |
“Return, and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, thus says Adonai, the God of your father David: ‘I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Behold, I am going to heal you. On the third day you will go up to the House of Adonai.
Adonai will watch over your coming and your going from this time forth and forevermore.
Your eyes saw me when I was unformed, and in Your book were written the days that were formed— when not one of them had come to be.
With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah
In all their affliction He was afflicted. So the angel of His presence saved them. In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, then He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.
Yet You know their whole plot, Adonai, against me to slay me. Do not forgive their iniquity or blot out their sin before You. But make them stumble before You. Act against them in the time of Your anger.
Then those who revere Adonai spoke with each other, and Adonai took notice and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was written before Him, for those who revere Adonai, even those who esteem His Name.
In my many journeys I have been in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the desert, dangers in the sea, dangers among false brothers,
These all died in faith without receiving the things promised—but they saw them and welcomed them from afar, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
The world was not worthy of them! They wandered around in deserts and mountains, caves and holes in the ground.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going.
And I saw the dead—the great and the small—standing before the throne. The books were opened, and another book was opened—the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to what was written in the books, according to their deeds.
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne shall shepherd them and guide them to springs of living water, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
So David fled and escaped, went to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.
Then David said in his heart, “One day I’ll be swept away by the hand of Saul. There’s nothing better for me than to escape immediately to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me in all the territories of Israel, so I’ll escape from his hand.”