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I Cry Out before You

Psalms 88:9

In 11 translations

BSB
My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
KJV
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
WEB
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
ASV
Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
LSV
My eye has grieved because of affliction, || I called You, O YHWH, all the day, || I have spread out my hands to You.
YLT
Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.
DBY
Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
DRC87:10
My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.
GNV
Mine eye is sorowfull through mine affliction: Lord, I call dayly vpon thee: I stretch out mine hands vnto thee.
JPS88:10
Mine eye languisheth by reason of affliction; I have called upon Thee, O LORD, every day, I have spread forth my hands unto Thee.
LXXE87:10
Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC88:10
עֵינִ֥י דָאֲבָ֗ה מִנִּ֫י עֹ֥נִי קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהוָ֣ה בְּכָל־י֑וֹם שִׁטַּ֖חְתִּי אֵלֶ֣יךָ כַפָּֽי׃KJV:Ps.88.9
LXX-Br87:10
Οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἠσθένησαυ ἀπὸ πτωχείας· καὶ ἐκέκραξα πρὸς σὲ Κύριε ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, διεπέτασα πρὸς σὲ τὰς χεῖράς μου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
  • Psalms 38:10My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
  • Psalms 86:3Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
  • Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
  • Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
  • Job 17:7My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
  • Lamentations 3:48–49Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
  • Psalms 68:31Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.
  • John 11:35Jesus wept.
  • Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
  • Psalms 88:1O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
  • Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
  • Ezekiel 17:11Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  • Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
  • Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
  • Psalms 55:17Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 88:10 in some Bibles
  • 88:9 in most Bibles

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