Psalms 56

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 56?

  1. No One Can Steal Our Joy — Tenth Avenue North (2016) Psalms 56:4

    The bridge closely reproduces the psalmist’s rhetorical declaration that human adversaries cannot ultimately prevail against those who trust God. The surrounding language of fear and confidence further supports Psalm 56 as the source.

  2. 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.

  3. Carry You (1997 Version) — Amy Grant (2022) Psalms 56:8

    God's meticulous attention to each tear echoes the psalmist's image of God preserving and recording his tears during persecution.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. I'm Not Alone — Riley Clemmons (2021) Psalms 56:8

    The image of God preserving every tear closely reproduces the psalmist’s depiction of God collecting and recording his grief.

  13. How It All Matters — Bethany Barnard (2021) Psalms 56:8

    The question of whether God counts the singer's tears closely echoes the psalmist's image of God carefully recording human grief.

  14. Hermoso Momento (Sesión Acústica) — Kairo Worship (2023) Psalms 56:12-13

    The worship leader directly adopts the psalm’s language concerning vows owed to God, praise offered for deliverance, preservation from falling, and walking in the light of the living.

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?