My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,(A)
    by night,(B) but I find no rest.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:2 Or night, and am not silent

O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

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And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out(A) to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

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And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

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My tears(A) have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”(B)

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My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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Psalm 88[a]

A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth.[b] A maskil[c] of Heman the Ezrahite.

Lord, you are the God who saves me;(A)
    day and night I cry out(B) to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:1 In Hebrew texts 88:1-18 is numbered 88:2-19.
  2. Psalm 88:1 Title: Possibly a tune, “The Suffering of Affliction”
  3. Psalm 88:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term

88 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

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Thanksgiving

I thank God,(A) whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience,(B) as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.(C)

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I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

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44 So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

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44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.

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10 Night and day we pray(A) most earnestly that we may see you again(B) and supply what is lacking in your faith.

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10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

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The Twelve Apostles(A)

12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.(B)

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12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

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44 You have covered yourself with a cloud(A)
    so that no prayer(B) can get through.(C)

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44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

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Even when I call out or cry for help,(A)
    he shuts out my prayer.(B)

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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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How long,(A) Lord God Almighty,
    will your anger smolder(B)
    against the prayers of your people?

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O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

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16 As for me, I call to God,
    and the Lord saves me.
17 Evening,(A) morning(B) and noon(C)
    I cry out in distress,
    and he hears my voice.

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16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.

17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

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41 He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down(A) and prayed, 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup(B) from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”(C) 43 An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.(D) 44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.[a]

45 When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. 46 “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 22:44 Many early manuscripts do not have verses 43 and 44.

41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,

42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

46 And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

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