Psalm 88:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon thee, O Lord; I spread out my hands to thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ My eye grows dim because of sorrow and affliction. Lord, I have called daily on You; I have spread forth my hands to You.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

Common English Bible

⁹ My eyes are tired of looking at my suffering. I’ve been calling out to you every day, LORD— I’ve had my hands outstretched to you!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.

Psalm 88:9 Cross References

Job 11:13

“If you set your heart aright, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

Psalm 86:3

be gracious to me, O Lord, for to thee do I cry all the day.

Psalm 143:6

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

Psalm 38:10

My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

John 11:35

Jesus wept.

Ezekiel 17:11

Then the word of the Lord came to me:

Psalm 102:9

For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,

Psalm 88:1

O Lord, my God, I call for help by day; I cry out in the night before thee.

Psalm 68:31

Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God.

Psalm 55:17

Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.

Psalm 44:20

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

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 6:7

My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.

Job 17:7

My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Job 3:23

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?

Psalm 38:12

Those who seek my life lay their snares, those who seek my hurt speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all the day long.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;