Psalm 88:9

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

My friends are my scoffers. My eye weeps to God.

My eyes are dim because of grief. My limbs are like a shadow.

Rivers of water run down from my eyes because pf the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jesus wept.

([Sons of Korah]) O Jehovah, God of my salvation I cry out to you day and night.

Morning, noon, and night I complain and murmur. He listens to my voice.

Have pity on me, O Jehovah, since I call out to you all day long.

If we forgot the name of our God or stretched out our hands to pray to another god,

Ambassadors will come from Egypt. Sudan will stretch out its hands to God in prayer.

I stretch out my hands to you for I long for you, like a parched land.

Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me:

Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,