Psalms 56:8

You keep track of my misery. ¹  Put my tears in your leather container! ²  Are they not recorded in your scroll? ³ 

biblegateway Psa 56:8

Record my lament; list my tears on your scroll— are they not in your record?

biblegateway Psa 56:8

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

biblegateway Psa 56:8

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

biblegateway Psa 56:8

You've kept track of my every toss and turn through the sleepless nights, Each tear entered in your ledger, each ache written in your book.

SABDAweb Psa 56:8

You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

bibleoremus Psa 56:8

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

biblegateway Psa 56:8

You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?

biblegateway Psa 56:8

You keep track of my misery. ¹  Put my tears in your leather container! ²  Are they not recorded in your scroll? ³ 

¹ 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.” The verb סָפַר (safar, “count”) probably carries the nuance “assess” here. Cf. NIV “my lament”; NRSV “my tossings.”

² tn Traditionally “your bottle.” Elsewhere the Hebrew word נֹאד (no’d, “leather container”) refers to a container made from animal skin which is used to hold wine or milk (see Josh 9:4, 13; Judg 4:19; 1 Sam 16:20). If such a container is metaphorically in view here, then the psalmist seems to be asking God to store up his tears as a reminder of his suffering.

³ tn The word “recorded” is supplied in the translation for clarification. The rhetorical question assumes a positive response (see the first line of the verse).