Psalms 88:9
Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah
Cross References
Job 11:13If thou set thine heart aright, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Job 17:7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Psalms 38:10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Psalms 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 55:17Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan: and he shall hear my voice.
Psalms 86:3Be merciful unto me, O Lord; for unto thee do I cry all the 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 →