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 scoff at me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jesus wept.

O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.

Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan; And he will hear my voice.

Be merciful unto me, O Lord; For unto thee do I cry all the day long.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God.

I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah

Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;