KJV 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.
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Psalm 88:9
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
WEB World English Bible
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 88
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.
11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?
12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עֵינִ֥יH5869 · a.yineyeדָאֲבָ֗הH1669 · da.avto languishמִנִּ֫יH4480 · minfromעֹ֥נִיH6040 · o.niafflictionקְרָאתִ֣יךָH7121 · qa.rato call: call toיְהוָ֣הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDבְּכָל־H3605 · kolallי֑וֹםH3117 · yomdayשִׁטַּ֖חְתִּיH7849 · sha.tachto spreadאֵלֶ֣יךָH413 · elto(wards)כַפָּֽי׃H3709 · kaphpalm
Cross-references
Job 11:13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;Psalm 38:10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.Psalm 86:3Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.Psalm 143:6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.Psalm 42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?Psalm 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,Psalm 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;John 11:35Jesus wept.Lamentations 3:48-49Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.Psalm 88:1A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night before thee:Ezekiel 17:11Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,Job 16:20My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.Psalm 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.Psalm 55:17Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.Psalm 6:7Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.Job 17:7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
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