Psalm 88:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call on you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you.

Cross References

Job 11:13

“If you direct your heart rightly, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

Job 16:20

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

Job 17:7

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

Job 3:23

Why is light given to one who cannot see the way, whom God has fenced in?

Psalm 102:9

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

Psalm 143:6

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

Psalm 38:10

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

Psalm 38:12

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin and meditate on treachery all day long.

Psalm 42:3

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

Psalm 44:20

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

Psalm 55:17

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

Psalm 6:7

My eyes waste away because of grief; they grow weak because of all my foes.

Psalm 68:31

Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Cush hasten to stretch out its hands to God.

Psalm 86:3

be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all day long.

Psalm 88:1

O Lord, God of my salvation, at night, when I cry out before you,

Lamentations 3:7

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

Ezekiel 17:11

Then the word of the Lord came to me:

John 11:35

Jesus began to weep.