{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 56","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":113,"description":"Psalm 56: The Bottle of TearsHere is one of the most arresting images in all of Scripture, and it comes in the middle of a hunted man's prayer. David is in Gath, surrounded by Philistines who recognize him and mean him harm, and in his extremity he says to God: \"Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?\" Consider what is being claimed. Not merely that God sees our suffering — any distant deity might do that — but that He counts our tossings, collects our tears, records our grief with the attentiveness of a librarian cataloging rare manuscripts. Nothing is wasted. No midnight sob, no bewildered weeping in a foreign land, escapes His notice. And it is precisely from this knowledge — that he is watched over with such tender precision — that David finds the courage for one of the boldest declarations in the Psalter: \"What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.\" Not \"I will never be afraid\" — that would be bravado, not faith. But when the fear comes, and it will come, I will place it in the hands of the One who keeps my tears in a bottle.00:00 Be Merciful Unto Me, O God01:00 My Tears in Thy Bottle","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}