1)

What is "Nodi Safarta"?

1.

Rashi: You know the number of places I went to flee. Radak - just like You counted my wanderings, guard them with You to take vengeance from my enemies.

2.

Malbim: You counted the number of times I relocated, how many days I was wandering and in how many places.

2)

Why did he ask Hashem to put his tear in His flask?

1.

Rashi: It should be guarded in front of You.

2.

Radak: This is a metaphor - just like it is normal to guard water in a flask, guard my tears. I.e. do not forget them.

3.

Malbim: My tears should be in Your flask and b'Sifrasecha, i.e. in Your calculation. E.g. if it was decreed on me 10 wanderings, and in one of them I had pain and cried like [is proper] in 10, join the number of tears to the calculation of wanderings, to diminish the time of wandering based on the pain and tears.

3)

Why does it say "ha'Lo b'Sifrasecha"?

1.

Rashi: It will be in Your count, to count it with my other afflictions.

2.

Rashi citing Menachem: It is in Your Sefer.

3.

Radak: "Ha'Lo" is to strengthen and make zealous, like "ha'Lo Tzivisicha Chazak ve'Ematz" (Yehoshua 1:9), "ha'Lo Shamat Biti" (Rus 2:8). Sifrasecha is a metaphor, like "va'Yikasev Sefer Zikaron Lefanav" (Mal'achi 3:16). What is written is not forgotten; the Sefer always reminds him.

4.

Malbim: Refers to 56:9:2:3.

Sefer: Perek: Pasuk:

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