Psalms 56

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 56?

  1. Tears Are Smoke — Bethany Barnard (2021) Psalms 56:8

    The closing assurance that God forgets no tear closely reflects the psalm's portrayal of God preserving and recording the sufferer's tears.

  2. the stake — CHANGETHEWXRLD (2024) Psalms 56:8

    The assurance that God has recorded the speaker’s tears closely paraphrases the psalm’s depiction of God keeping an account of David’s sorrow.

  3. Tears — Cade Thompson (2023) Psalms 56:8

    The assurance that God remembers tears shed long ago evokes the psalmist's confidence that God carefully records every sorrow and tear.

  4. MIRACLE WORKER — Forrest Frank (2024) Psalms 56:8

    The belief that God preserves and accounts for each tear closely reflects the psalm’s distinctive image of God collecting David’s tears.

  5. Same God — Hannah Kerr (2021) Psalms 56:8

    The image of God attending to each falling tear reflects David's appeal for God to record and preserve his tears.

  6. Closer to You — Jeremy Camp (2024) Psalms 56:8

    The image of God personally receiving the singer's tears recalls David's assurance that his tears are preserved and known by God.

  7. Valuable — Lauren Daigle (2023) Psalms 56:8

    The image of God personally preserving every tear closely reflects the psalmist's assurance that God records his sorrow and stores his tears.

  8. Don't Grow Weary — Sam Purpose (2025) Psalms 56:8

    The assurance that God keeps a record of every tear closely paraphrases the psalmist's portrayal of God counting his sorrow and preserving his tears.

  9. Won't Be Too Long — Tasha Cobbs Leonard (2025) Psalms 56:8

    The bridge uses Psalm 56's distinctive image of God collecting and preserving a sufferer's tears, emphasizing that grief is seen and remembered by God.

Psalms 56 (King James Version)

1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.

11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?