Psalms 88:9

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“My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.”

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BSBPD

“My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 88:9 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
  2. Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
  3. Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
  4. Job 17:7My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
  5. Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
  6. Psalms 38:10My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
  7. Psalms 38:12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
  8. Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
  9. Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
  10. Psalms 55:17Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.
  11. Psalms 68:31Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.
  12. Psalms 86:3Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
  13. Psalms 88:1O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
  14. Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
  15. Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
  16. Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
  17. Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  18. Ezekiel 17:11Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  19. John 11:35Jesus wept.

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