Psalms 56:8

God numbers David's wanderings and treasures his tears in his bottle and book. It tenderly affirms God's intimate care for the suffering.

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• 2 Kgs 20:5“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.
• Mal 3:16Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
• Ps 39:12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
• Rev 7:17for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
• Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
• Matt 10:30but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
• Ps 139:16Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
• Ps 121:8Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
• Heb 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
• Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Job 16:20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
• Rev 20:12I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• Ps 105:13–14They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
• 1 Sam 22:1–5David therefore departed from there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.
• Heb 11:38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
• 1 Sam 19:18Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
• Num 33:2–56Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their goings out.
• 1 Sam 27:1David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”
• 2 Cor 11:26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
• Heb 11:8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

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