Psalm 143:6 “I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched…”

Psalm 143:6

I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

World English Bible

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

I stretche forth mine hands vnto thee: my soule desireth after thee, as the thirstie land. Selah.

Darby Translation

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, [thirsteth] after thee. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation

I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul [is] as a weary land for Thee. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

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Cross references

“stretch forth”

Job 11:13 Psalm 88:9 Psalm 44:20

Job 11:13 · BSB

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

Psalm 88:9 · BSB

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

Psalm 44:20 · BSB

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

“my soul”

Psalm 63:1 Psalm 84:2 Isaiah 35:7 John 7:37 Psalm 42:1 Psalm 42:2

Psalm 63:1 · BSB

O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

Psalm 84:2 · BSB

My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Isaiah 35:7 · BSB

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

John 7:37 · BSB

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

Psalm 42:1 · BSB

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

Psalm 42:2 · BSB

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.

7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

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