8 You keep track of all my sorrows.[a] You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

Psalm 56 For the choir director: A psalm[a] of David, regarding the time the Philistines seized him in Gath. To be sung to the tune “Dove on Distant Oaks.”

8 You keep track of all my sorrows.[a] You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

8 You keep track of all my sorrows.[a] You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

Footnotes Psalm 56:8 Or misery; / put my tears in your wineskin Psalm 56:8 New Living Translation 8 You keep track of all my sorrows.[ a]

8 Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll[d]— are they not in your record? 9 Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.

You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not recorded in Your book?

Psalm 56:8 tn Heb “my wandering you count, you.” The Hebrew term נֹד (nod, “wandering,” derived from the verbal root נוֹד, nod, “to wander”; cf. NASB) here refers to the psalmist’s “changeable circumstances of life” and may be translated “misery.”

8 You keep track of all my sorrows.[a] You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.