Psalms 88:9

\88:8\You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

Bible in Basic English

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

8\88:7\The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

10\88:9\My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

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Cross References

Job 11:13But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

Job 17:7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

Psalms 38:10\38:9\Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

Psalms 42:3\42:2\My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

Psalms 55:17\55:16\As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

Psalms 86:3Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day.

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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