Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 56:8
Wanderings — How I have been hunted from place to place. Put — Regard and pity them. Are they not — But why do I pray to God to do that which he hath already done?
Wanderings — How I have been hunted from place to place. Put — Regard and pity them. Are they not — But why do I pray to God to do that which he hath already done?
Verse Psalms 56:8. _THOU TELLEST MY WANDERINGS_] Thou seest how often I am obliged to _shift the place_ of my _retreat_. I am hunted every where; but thou _numberest_ all my _hiding-places_, and seest...
THOU TELLEST MY WANDERINGS - Thou dost “number” or “recount” them; that is, in thy own mind. Thou dost keep an account of them; thou dost notice me as I am driven from one place to another to find saf...
Psalms 56 The Faithfulness of God, the Comfort of His People _ 1. Trust and Comfort (Psalms 56:1)_ 2. Praise for anticipated deliverance (Psalms 56:10) These five Psalms which are grouped together...
LVI. A PRAYER AGAINST STRONG, NUMEROUS, AND CRAFTY FOES. Psalms 56:2. For enemies read they that lie in wait for me (_mg.),_ PROUDLY: read bitterly. Psalms 56:4. Will praise his word, _i.e._ the fulf...
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 colle...
The second division of the Psalm is similar to the first: a description of present distress, and prayer for help, followed by an expression of perfect confidence in God's protection....
_Thou tellest my wanderings_ Thou countest the days and adventures of my fugitive life, while I am driven from my home as a wanderer and vagabond (Psalms 36:11, notes); not one of them escapes Thy not...
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 comfor...
PSALMS 56 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song by David in Captivity. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 56:1-3, In a few words, David Describes his Captive Condition, and Composes a _Refrain_ of Praise, Stanza II., P...
_THOU TELLEST MY WANDERINGS: PUT THOU MY TEARS INTO THY BOTTLE: ARE THEY NOT IN THY BOOK?_ Thou tellest my wanderings - i:e., Thou takest note of my movements in 'my flight' from my home and country....
56:8 countest (b-2) Or 'recountest.' bottle. (c-10) There is a paronomasia in this verse with _ Nod_ , 'wandering,' and _ N _ , 'bottle' (i.e. a leathern sack)....
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 th...
TELLEST] countest. PUT THOU MY TEARS] or, 'my tears are put.' THY BOTTLE] or 'skin.' God treasures His servants' tears as if they were water or wine. St. Bernard says, 'the tears of penitents are the...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
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...
_[Psalms 56:9]_ נֹדִי֮ סָפַ֪רְתָּ֫ה אָ֥תָּה שִׂ֣ימָה דִמְעָתִ֣י...
Psalms 56:1 THE superscription dates this psalm from the time of David's being in Gath. Probably his first stay there is meant, during which he had recourse to feigned insanity in order to secure his...
“WHAT CAN MAN DO UNTO ME?” Psalms 56:1 This psalm was composed under the same circumstances as Psalms 34:1. See 1 Samuel 21:1. What a strange medley is here shown-David feigning madness and composing...
The keynote of this psalm is the concluding declaration of the previous one, "I will trust in Thee." Here again are evident the same circumstances of oppression (verses Psa 56:5-7). The song opens and...
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my (g) tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book? (g) If God stores the tears of his saints, much more will he remember their blood, to avenge it: and tho...
_My. This and the following verses, from the 107th psalm. (Calmet)_...
What a sweet thought is here suggested of God's remembrance of his people's affliction! It is an interesting figure of speech, of bottling their tears: but the sense is, they are remembered. And woe w...
_‘HE CARETH FOR YOU’_ ‘Thou tellest my wanderings: put Thou my tears into Thy bottle: are they not in Thy book?’ Psalms 56:8 I. THE HUMAN SIDE OF LIFE.—It is described under two forms: wandering an...
8._Thou hast taken account of my wanderings _The words run in the form of an abrupt prayer. Having begun by requesting God to consider his tears, suddenly, as if he had obtained what he asked, he decl...
Psalms 56 expresses the sense of the bitter and relentless enmity of the wicked, but the tears of the godly are put in God's bottle. God is owned as the Most High, the title of promise but not of cove...
THOU TELLEST MY WANDERINGS,.... Not his sins; though these are aberrations or wanderings from the ways of God's commandments; yet these are not told by the Lord: he takes no account of them; the numbe...
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book? Ver. 8. _Thou tellest my wanderings_] Or, thou cipherest up my flittings, and hast them in _numerato,_ ready...
_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...
COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF PERSECUTION. To the chief musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, the word not only denoting the melody according to which the hymn was to be sung, "The dove of silence of distant p...
Thou tellest my wanderings, counting how often and how far David had to flee before his enemies; PUT THOU MY TEARS INTO THY BOTTLE, carefully measuring and preserving them as a record of his misery; A...
8-13 The heavy and continued trials through which many of the Lord's people have passed, should teach us to be silent and patient under lighter crosses. Yet we are often tempted to repine and despond...
MY WANDERINGS: here I have been hunted from place to place, and am now driven hither. PUT MY TEARS INTO THY BOTTLE; regard, and remember, and pity them. ARE THEY NOT IN THY BOOK? but why do I pray to...
Psalms 56:8 number H5608 (H8804) wanderings H5112 Put H7760 (H8798) tears H1832 bottle H4997 book H5612...
AN EXPRESSION OF HIS TRUST IN GOD IN THE FACE OF HIS ENEMIES (PSALMS 56:8). His confidence lies in the fact that he knows that he is the chosen of YHWH, that God is keeping count of his wanderings, an...
Psalms 56:8 I. The human side of life. It is described under two forms: wandering and tears; and the division, though brief, is very comprehensive. Life has its active part in wanderings, its passive...
To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam (a golden Psalm) of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up: he figh...
Psalms 56:1. _Be merciful unto me, O God for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me._ «Man has no mercy upon me, but, O God, be thou merciful unto me! If thy justice doth for a whil...
CONTENTS: David pours out complaint about enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When we are surrounded on all sides with difficulties and dangers because of enemies, we have but one retreat t...
The title of this psalm, which relates to the manner of singing and playing, is upon the remote and silent dove. To which _michtam_ is added, the golden ode of David. In the LXX, the title of this and...
_Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up._ THE DEPRECABLE AND THE DESIRABLE I. The deprecable in relation to man. 1. Craven-heartedness. A man whose heart is morally sound is bold a...
_Thou tellest my wanderings: put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?_ LIFE ON THE HUMAN SIDE AND THE DIVINE There is a description of life given in the Bible which has been objec...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 56:1. Many take this to be an individual lament, but it could also be a psalm of anticipated thanksgiving. The description of troubles and prayer changes into gratitude that...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 56:8 God keeps account of the TEARS of his faithful ones. He is FOR those who trust in him. ⇐
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician upon Jonath-Elem-Rechokim.” The phrase “_Jonath-Elem-Rechokim_” occurs nowhere else in the Bible; and Biblical critics are by no means agreed as t...
EXPOSITION THIS and the following have been called "twin psalms." They begin with the same words, are nearly of the same length, and have each a refrain which divides them into two portions. Formally,...
Psa 56:1-13. This is the prayer of David when he heard a mourning dove. That is, a mourning: m-o-u-r-n-i-n-g dove, out in the distant terebinth trees. He no doubt heard these doves cooing off in the d...
1 Samuel 19:18; 1 Samuel 22:1; 1 Samuel 27:1; 2 Corinthians 11:26;...