Psalms 88:9
I've cried my eyes out begging you every day for your help, Lord, holding out my hands to you.
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In Context
8You have made my friends avoid me by making me look repulsive to them. I'm trapped, I can't go out.
10Do you do miracles among the dead? Do the dead stand up to praise you? Selah.
Cross References
Job 11:13But if you repent and spread out your hands to pray to him,
Job 17:7My eyes are worn out from crying and my body is a shadow of its former self.
Psalms 38:10My heart is racing, leaving me with no strength; my eyesight is failing.
Psalms 42:3My tears have been my only food, day and night, while people ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 55:17I weep and groan morning, noon, and night, and he listens to me.
Psalms 86:3Be kind to me, Lord, for I call out to you all 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 →