Psalms 143:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah”
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“I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soulthirstethafter thee, as a weary land. [Selah”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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 DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 143:6 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Job 7:2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
- Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
- Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
- Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
- 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 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
- Psalms 88:10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- 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.
- 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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