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 scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jesus wept.

O Yahweh, God of my salvation, I cry out by day [and] through the night before you.

{Morning, noon and night} I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice.

Be gracious to me, O Lord, because I call to you {all day long}.

If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands [in prayer] to a foreign god,

Ambassadors will come from Egypt; Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul [longs] for you like a dry land. Selah

And the word of Yahweh {came} to me, {saying},

"If you yourself direct your heart and stretch out your hands to him--