Psalms 88:9
my eyes are wasted with sorrow. I call on you, Lord, every day, spreading my hands out to you.
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In Context
8You have put my friends far from me, you have made them shun me. I am shut in, and cannot escape,
10For the dead can you work wonders? Can the shades rise again to praise you? Selah
Cross References
Psalms 38:10My heart is throbbing, my strength has failed me. The light of my eyes – even it is gone from me.
Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food by day and by night; for they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 55:17Evening and morning and noon I lament and moan. He will hear my voice;
Psalms 86:3Lord, be gracious to me, for you are my God; I cry 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 →