Psalm 88:9 my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

◄ Psalm 88:9 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

English Standard Version
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.

New American Standard Bible
My eye has wasted away because of affliction; I have called upon You every day, O LORD; I have spread out my hands to You.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My eyes are worn out from crying. LORD, I cry out to You all day long; I spread out my hands to You.

International Standard Version
My eyes languish on account of my affliction; all day long I call out to you, LORD, I 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
my eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Darby Bible 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.

Cross References

Job 11:13
If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;

Psalm 6:7
My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all my enemies.

Psalm 22:2
O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalm 31:9
Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.

Psalm 38:10
My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

Psalm 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 86:3
Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to you daily.

Psalm 143:6
I stretch forth my hands to you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

88:1-9 The first words of the psalmist are the only words of comfort and support in this psalm. Thus greatly may good men be afflicted, and such dismal thoughts may they have about their afflictions, and such dark conclusion may they make about their end, through the power of melancholy and the weakness of faith. He complained most of God's displeasure. Even the children of God's love may sometimes think themselves children of wrath and no outward trouble can be so hard upon them as that. Probably the psalmist described his own case, yet he leads to Christ. Thus are we called to look unto Jesus, wounded and bruised for our iniquities. But the wrath of God poured the greatest bitterness into his cup. This weighed him down into darkness and the deep.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. Mine eye mourneth—literally, "decays," or fails, denoting exhaustion (Ps 6:7; 31:9).

I … called—(Ps 86:5, 7).

stretched out—for help (Ps 44:20).