My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
- BSB My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
- NKJV My eye wastes away because of affliction. Lord, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands to You.
- NASB My eye grows dim from misery; I have called upon You every day, Lord; I have spread out my hands to You.
- NLT My eyes are blinded by my tears. Each day I beg for your help, O Lord; I lift my hands to you for mercy.
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Cross-references · 16
- Job 11:13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
- Ps 38:10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
- Ps 86:3Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
- Ps 143:6I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
- Ps 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
- Ps 55:17Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
- Ps 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
- Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
- Ps 6:7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
- Ps 88:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
- Job 17:7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
- John 11:35Jesus wept.
- Job 16:20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
- Lam 3:48–49My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Ezek 17:11Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
- Ps 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;
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