Psalms 88:9
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
Cross References
Job 11:13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Job 17:7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Psalms 38:10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 55:17Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
Psalms 86:3Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call 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 →