Psalm 88:9 {87:10}
Good News Translation
my eyes are weak from suffering. LORD, every day I call to you and lift my hands to you in prayer.

New Revised Standard Version
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call on you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.

Contemporary English Version
and I am almost blind because of my sorrow. Each day I lift my hands in prayer to you, LORD.

New American Bible
my eyes grow dim from trouble. All day I call on you, LORD; I stretch out my hands to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

mine

Psalm 38:10 My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.

Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

Psalm 102:9 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

Job 16:20 My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Job 17:7 My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

Lamentations 3:48,49 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. . . .

John 11:35 And Jesus wept.

called

Psalm 88:1 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. [2] O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

Psalm 55:17 Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice.

Psalm 86:3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

stretched

Psalm 44:20 For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.

Psalm 68:31 Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

Psalm 143:6 I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

Ezekiel 17:11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Job 11:13 But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.

Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
8Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth: 9My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?…
Cross References
Job 11:13
But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.

Psalm 6:7
My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

Psalm 22:2
O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Psalm 31:9
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

Psalm 38:10
My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.

Psalm 77:2
In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

Psalm 86:3
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

Psalm 143:6
I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

Psalm 88:8
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