Psalm 88:9 “My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out…”

Psalm 88:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Mine eye is sorowfull through mine affliction: Lord, I call dayly vpon thee: I stretch out mine hands vnto thee.

Darby Translation

Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have”

Psalm 38:10 Psalm 42:3 Psalm 102:9 Job 16:20 Job 17:7 John 11:35

Psalm 38:10 · BSB

My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

Psalm 42:3 · BSB

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 102:9 · BSB

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

Job 16:20 · BSB

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

Job 17:7 · BSB

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

John 11:35 · BSB

Jesus wept.

“called”

Psalm 86:3 Psalm 88:1 Psalm 55:17

Psalm 86:3 · BSB

Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.

Psalm 88:1 · BSB

O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.

Psalm 55:17 · BSB

Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

“stretched”

Job 11:13 Psalm 143:6 Psalm 44:20 Psalm 68:31 Ezekiel 17:11

Job 11:13 · BSB

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

Psalm 143:6 · BSB

I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

Psalm 44:20 · BSB

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

Psalm 68:31 · BSB

Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.

Ezekiel 17:11 · BSB

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Also

Psalm 6:7

Psalm 6:7 · BSB

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

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