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You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren`t they in your book?
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God's Intimate Care
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse expresses God's personal and meticulous care. David found comfort in knowing that God counted his every wandering and treasured every tear. For believers today, this means no sorrow is too small for God's notice. He keeps a perfect record, not because He is a distant accountant, but because He values you and remembers your every struggle.
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18th Century
Theologian
You recount my wanderings - You “number” or “recount” them; that is, in your own mind. You keep an account of them; you notice me a…
19th Century
Bishop
Wanderings.—Rather, in the singular, wandering, which, from the parallelism with “tears,” must mean “mental restlessness,…
Preacher
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
David was such a wanderer at that time that…
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16th Century
You have taken account of my wanderings. The words take the form of an abrupt prayer. Having begun by requesting God to consider his tears…
17th Century
Pastor
You tell my wanderings Not his sins; though these are aberrations or wanderings from the ways of God's commandments;…
Minister
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. …
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