Psalms 88:9

My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

In Context

8Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

10Will thou show wonders to the dead? Shall those who are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah.

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Cross References

Job 11:13If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,

Job 17:7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Psalms 38:10My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

Psalms 55:17Evening, and morning, and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.

Psalms 86:3Be merciful to me, O LORD, for to thee do I cry all the day long.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:2-10

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. 1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in… Read the whole commentary →

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