Psalms 143:6
4 My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.
I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
7 Answer 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.
8 Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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
- DARBY
- I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, [thirsteth] after thee. Selah.
- BLB
- I spread out my hands to You; my soul [is] like a land exhausted for You. Selah
- ÅB
- Jeg utbreder mine hender til deg, min sjel lenges etter deg som et vansmektende land. Sela.
- OTB
- Jeg rekker ut mine hender til deg;
Min sjel tørster etter deg, som et uttørket land.
Sela - B1930
- Jeg utbreder mine hender til dig, min sjel lenges efter dig som et vansmektende land. Sela.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 11:13
As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
Read in contextPsalms 63:1
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.
Read in contextPsalms 88:9
My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
Read in contextPsalms 84:2
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Read in contextPsalms 42:1–2
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
Read in contextPsalms 44:20
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Read in contextIsaiah 26:8–9
Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
Read in contextIsaiah 35:7
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.
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