Psalm 88:9 - Tree of Life Version You have put my companions far from me. You have made me repulsive to them. I am shut in and I cannot go out. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. |
My eyes have grown dim with grief and all my limbs are like a shadow.
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
I spread forth my hands to You. My soul longs for You as a parched land. Selah
My Lord, all my longing is before You, and my sighing is not hidden from You.
My friends and my companions stay away from my wound, and my kinsmen stand far off.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and appear before God?
Yet You crushed us in a place of jackals, covered us with the shadow of death.
I am worn out with my groaning. Every night I make my bed swim, drenching my pillow with my tears.
Rebuke the beast of the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves, peoples trampling down pieces of silver. He has scattered the peoples who delight in war!
A song, a psalm of the sons of Korah, for the music director, for singing Mahalath, a contemplative song of Heman the Ezrahite.