You have kept count of my tossings;[a]
    (A)put my tears in your bottle.
    (B)Are they not in your book?

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  1. Psalm 56:8 Or wanderings

Record my misery;
    list my tears on your scroll[a](A)
    are they not in your record?(B)

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  1. Psalm 56:8 Or misery; / put my tears in your wineskin

The Book of Remembrance

16 Then those who feared the Lord (A)spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and (B)a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.

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The Faithful Remnant

16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard.(A) A scroll(B) of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared(C) the Lord and honored his name.

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12 (A)“Hear my prayer, O Lord,
    and give ear to my cry;
    hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am (B)a sojourner with you,
    (C)a guest, like all my fathers.

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12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;(A)
    do not be deaf(B) to my weeping.(C)
I dwell with you as a foreigner,(D)
    a stranger,(E) as all my ancestors were.(F)

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“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah (A)the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: (B)I have heard your prayer; (C)I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord,

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“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard(A) your prayer and seen your tears;(B) I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.

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30 But (A)even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

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30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.(A)

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17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne (A)will be their shepherd,
    and he will guide them to springs of (B)living water,
and (C)God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

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17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne
    will be their shepherd;(A)
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’[a](B)
    ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’[b](C)

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  1. Revelation 7:17 Isaiah 49:10
  2. Revelation 7:17 Isaiah 25:8

16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your (A)book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.

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16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained(A) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

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(A)Those who sow in tears
    shall reap with shouts of joy!
He who goes out weeping,
    bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
    bringing his sheaves with him.

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Those who sow with tears(A)
    will reap(B) with songs of joy.(C)
Those who go out weeping,(D)
    carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
    carrying sheaves with them.

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The Lord will keep
    your (A)going out and your coming in
    from this time forth and forevermore.

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the Lord will watch over your coming and going
    both now and forevermore.(A)

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13 These all died in faith, (A)not having received the things promised, but (B)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and (C)having acknowledged that they were (D)strangers and exiles on the earth.

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13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised;(A) they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,(B) admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.(C)

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(A)In all their affliction he was afflicted,[a]
    and the angel of his presence saved them;
(B)in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
    (C)he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

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  1. Isaiah 63:9 Or he did not afflict

In all their distress he too was distressed,
    and the angel(A) of his presence(B) saved them.[a]
In his love and mercy he redeemed(C) them;
    he lifted them up and carried(D) them
    all the days of old.(E)

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  1. Isaiah 63:9 Or Savior in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them

20 My friends (A)scorn me;
    my eye pours out tears to God,

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20 My intercessor(A) is my friend[a](B)
    as my eyes pour out(C) tears(D) to God;

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  1. Job 16:20 Or My friends treat me with scorn

12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and (A)books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is (B)the book of life. And (C)the dead were judged by what was written in the books, (D)according to what they had done.

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12 And I saw the dead, great and small,(A) standing before the throne, and books were opened.(B) Another book was opened, which is the book of life.(C) The dead were judged(D) according to what they had done(E) as recorded in the books.

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