Psalms 88:9

O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? 1 Thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 in the council of the saints; 1 Great and terrible toward all that are round about him. 1

10Thou rulest the power of the sea; 1 And thou calmest the tumult of its waves. 1

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Cross References

Job 11:13For if thou hast made thy heart pure, 1 And liftest up thine hands toward him; 1

Job 17:7For my eyes are dimmed through pain; 1 I have been grievously beset by all. 1

Psalms 38:10I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me. 1

Psalms 42:3Send forth thy light and thy truth: 1 They have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, 1 And to thy tabernacles. 1

Psalms 86:3Glorious things have been spoken of thee, O city of God. Pause. 1

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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