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Psalm 88:13

But to you, LORD, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

11Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
12Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13But to you, LORD, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
14LORD, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
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Morning brings another prayer in a psalm still full of darkness, where crying to YHWH continues alongside questions about his hidden face.

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Where else Scripture says this

5 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 5:3LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.Both speakers bring prayer before the LORD in the morning; Psalm 5 adds an expectant watch.
Psalm 30:2LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.Both speakers cry to the LORD; Psalm 30 names healing, while Psalm 88:13 leaves the cry without an answer.
Psalm 55:17Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.Morning is a named time for crying out in both psalms; Psalm 55 also names evening and noon.
Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.Both passages name morning as a time of prayer, though Psalm 88 speaks from distress and Mark describes a deserted place.
Psalm 59:16But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my …Both address God in the morning amid accounts of distress; Psalm 59 sings of refuge, while Psalm 88 continues pleading.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. grief. wanting a steady prayer habit.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 88:13 aloud when you wake tomorrow

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Encouragement

Your morning prayer need not sound hopeful to be honest. Here, the cry reaches toward YHWH while the next verse still asks why he hides his face.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).