You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
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Psalms · Psalm 56
Psalm 56:8
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7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
Psalm 56:8
You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
After
9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.
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