Psalms 88:9

O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.

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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

8God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.

10You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.

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Cross References

Job 11:13But you have fortified your heart and extended your hands to him.

Job 17:7My eyesight has been clouded by indignation, and my limbs have been reduced, as if to nothing.

Psalms 38:10I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.

Psalms 42:3Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.

Psalms 86:3Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God.

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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