Psalms 143:6

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

I have spread forth my hands to You, || My soul [is] as a weary land for You. Selah.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC142:6

I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

GNV

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

JPS

I spread forth my hands unto Thee; my soul thirsteth after Thee, as a weary land. Selah

LXXE142:6

I spread forth my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee, as a dry land. Pause.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

פֵּרַ֣שְׂתִּי יָדַ֣י אֵלֶ֑יךָ נַפְשִׁ֓י ׀ כְּאֶֽרֶץ־עֲיֵפָ֖ה לְךָ֣ סֶֽלָה׃

LXX-Br142:6

Διεπέτασα πρὸς σὲ τὰς χεῖράς μου, ἡ ψυχή μου ὡς γῆ ἄνυδρός σοι· διάψαλμα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
• Psalms 63:1O 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.
• Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
• Psalms 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Psalms 42:1–2As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
• Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
• Isaiah 26:8–9Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls. My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments…
• Isaiah 35:7The 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 7:37On 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.

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