Psalms 88:9
My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
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- Job 11:13 : 13 But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;
- Ps 143:6 : 6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
- Ps 86:3 : 3 Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day.
- Ps 38:10 : 10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
- Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
- Ps 44:20 : 20 If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
- Ps 55:17 : 17 In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
- Ps 68:31 : 31 Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God.
- Job 16:20 : 20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
- Job 17:7 : 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
- Ps 6:7 : 7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.
- Ps 88:1 : 1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
- Ps 102:9 : 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
- Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
- Ezek 17:11 : 11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- John 11:35 : 35 And Jesus himself was weeping.
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- Ps 88:1-33 verses79%
1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
2 Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:
3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
- Ps 88:7-82 verses78%
7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
- Ps 31:9-102 verses77%
9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.
10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
- Ps 88:13-153 verses76%
13 But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.
14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
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7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.
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7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
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3 Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day.
- Ps 25:15-162 verses75%
15 My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.
16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.
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6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
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8 My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.
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3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
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2 In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.
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6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
- Ps 28:1-22 verses74%
1 <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
2 Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
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16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
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1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.
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82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
- Ps 38:8-103 verses73%
8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
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13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
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22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
- Lam 1:20-223 verses72%
20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.
22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.
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9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
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3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
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8 But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
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14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
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16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.
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2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
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20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
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6 My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.
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1 <Maschil. Of David. A prayer when he was in the hole of the rock.> The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.
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4 You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.
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28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
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12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
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4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.
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2 Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
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49 My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
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8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
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17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.