Psalms 143:6

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soulthirstethafter thee, as a weary land. [Selah”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul <FI>is<Fi> as a weary land for Thee. Selah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 143:6 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 9:29Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
  2. Job 7:2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
  3. Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
  4. Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
  5. Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
  6. Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
  7. 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.
  8. Psalms 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  9. Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
  10. Psalms 88:10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
  11. Isaiah 26:8Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
  12. 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.
  13. 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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