Psalms 88:9

My eye has grieved because of affliction, || I called You, O YHWH, all the day, || I have spread out my hands to You.

Literal Standard 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

8You have put my acquaintance far from me, || You have made me an abomination to them, || Shut up—I do not go forth.

10Do You do wonders to the dead? Does Rephaim rise? Do they thank You? Selah.

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Cross References

Job 11:13If you have prepared your heart, || And have spread out your hands to Him,

Job 17:7And my eye is dim from sorrow, || And my members—all of them—as a shadow.

Psalms 38:10My heart [is] panting, my power has forsaken me, || And the light of my eyes, || Even they are not with me.

Psalms 42:3My tear has been bread day and night to me, || In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”

Psalms 55:17Evening, and morning, and noon, || I meditate, and make a noise, and He hears my voice,

Psalms 86:3Favor me, O Lord, for I call 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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