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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 56:8

Psalms 56:8. 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 a kind remembrance of them, and let them not perish as things thou nothing regardest.” Bishop Patrick. “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 an exile at Gath; he comforts... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 56:1-57

Psalms 56:1-57:11 David escapes from SaulBoth these psalms belong to the time when David fled from Saul, first to the city of Gath, then to the cave of Adullam. (For the historical background see introductory notes to Psalms 34:0.)David is in great distress in Gath, as he learns that certain people in the city are planning to kill him (56:1-2). The increased danger he faces drives him to an increased dependence on God (3-4). Enemies watch his every move, plotting how they can best attack him... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 56:8

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 thus collected and buried with the dead. Hence often found in ancient tombs. Thy book. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 56:8

Psalms 56:8. 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 comforts himself, however, that God was with him wherever he fled; and beheld, as no unconcerned spectator, the distresses of his unhappy situation. He therefore adds, put my tears into thy bottle; which seems to intimate, that the custom of putting tears into the ampullae, or urnae... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

8. God is mindful of his exile and remembers his tears. The custom of bottling the tears of mourners as a memorial, which has existed in some Eastern nations, may explain the figure. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 56:1-13

Psalms 56David wrote this psalm of individual lament when the Philistines seized him in Gath (1 Samuel 21:10; cf. Psalms 34). He composed it for singing to the tune of "A Dove on Distant Oaks." This melody was evidently common in David’s day.The content of this psalm is similar to that of Psalms 54, 55, , 57. Again David determined to continue trusting in the Lord even though his enemies sought to destroy him. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 56:8-9

David was confident that God knew about all his experiences intimately. He knew wherever David had gone, and He had made note of all his painful sufferings. The psalmist asked God to remember his sufferings in a graphic way. He wanted the Lord to store his tears in His bottle so their volume might move Him to act for David."Archaeologists have unearthed small ’tear bottles’ in which mourners collected their tears and then deposited the bottle at the gravesite." [Note: Wiersbe, The . . . Wisdom... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 56:8-13

2. The confidence of the psalmist 56:8-13 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 56:1-13

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 dove of the distant terebinths’) indicates the song to the melody of whicb the Ps. was to be sung. As in the case of Psalms 34 the title hardly describes accurately the occasion which it mentions (1 Samuel 21:10), and consequently too much weight must not be attached to it. The Psalmist, with many enemies... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 56:8

(8) 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.”Put thou my tears into thy bottle.—There is a play of words in the original of “bottle,” and “wandering.” We must not, of course, think of the lachrymatories, as they are called, of glass, which have been found in Syria (see Thomson, Land and Book, page 103). If these were really in any way connected... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 56:8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 56:1-57

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 56:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 56:8

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 56:1-13

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 56:8-9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 56:8-13

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 56:1-13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 56:8

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