Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul [is] as a weary land for thee. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
My
King James Version
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Holman Bible
I am like parched land before You.
International Standard Version
I stretch out my hands toward you, longing for you like a parched land. Interlude
American Standard Version
I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah
Amplified
I reach out my hands to You;
My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.
Darby Translation
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, thirsteth after thee. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
I spread out my hands to thee: my soul as a weary land for thee. Silence.
King James 2000
I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul [longs] for you like a dry land. Selah
Modern King James verseion
I stretch forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts after You like a thirsty land. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I stretch forth my hands unto thee; my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land. Selah.
NET Bible
I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.
New Heart English Bible
I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Webster
I stretch forth my hands to thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
World English Bible
I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul is as a weary land for Thee. Selah.
Themes
Desires » Select readings, psalms 42; 84 ps 42; 84 » Spiritual thirst, examples of
hands » Laying on of » Lifted up
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
Topics
Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 143:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry For Help
5 I remember the days of old. I meditate on all thy doings. I muse on the work of thy hands. 6 I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul [is] as a weary land for thee. Selah. 7 Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 63:1
O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.
Job 11:13
If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Psalm 88:9
My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.
Psalm 42:1-2
As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God.
Psalm 44:20
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.
Isaiah 26:8-9
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, we have waited for thee, to thy name. Even to thy memorial, is the desire of our soul.
Isaiah 35:7
And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
John 7:37
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.