Psalms 88:9
(88:10) My eye languisheth by reason of affliction: I call on thee, O Lord, every day, I stretch out unto thee my hands.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
10(88:11) Wilt thou display wonders to the dead? shall the departed arise [and] thank thee? Selah.
Cross References
Job 11:13If thou truly direct [aright] thy heart, and spread out thy hands toward him: —
Job 17:7Therefore is my eye dim from vexation, and my limbs are all of them like a shadow.
Psalms 38:10(38:11) My heart is restless, my strength hath left me; and the light of my eyes—that also is no more with me.
Psalms 42:3(42:4) My tears have been my food day and night; because men say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Psalms 55:17(55:18) At evening and morning and noon will I make my complaint and moan: and he heareth my voice.—
Psalms 86:3Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for unto thee I call all the time.
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 →