Psalms 88:9
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 88 connects to 10 cross-references. A Korahite lament of Heman the Ezrahite, one of the darkest psalms in the Psalter, expressing unrelenting suffering and divine abandonment. Unlike most laments it contains no turn toward confidence or praise. The psalmist is counted among those going to …
Other Translations
Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.
My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
Cross References
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.