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New King James Version

Psalms 143:6

I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You like a thirsty land.Selah

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Desire;   Seekers;   Thirst;   Thompson Chain Reference - Desire;   Desire-Satisfaction;   Hands;   Lifting up Hands;   Thirst, Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Drink;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hand;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Thirst;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
Geneva Bible (1587)
I stretch forth mine hands vnto thee: my soule desireth after thee, as the thirstie land. Selah.
Christian Standard Bible®
I spread out my hands to you;I am like parched land before you.Selah
Hebrew Names Version
I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Easy-to-Read Version
I lift my hands in prayer to you. I am waiting for your help, like a dry land waiting for rain. Selah
Amplified Bible
I reach out my hands to You; My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.
American Standard Version
I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah
Contemporary English Version
Then I lift my hands in prayer, because my soul is a desert, thirsty for water from you.
Complete Jewish Bible
I spread out my hands to you, I long for you like a thirsty land. (Selah)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I spread forth my hands unto Thee; my soul [thirsteth] after Thee, as a weary land. Selah
King James Version (1611)
I stretch forth my hands vnto thee: my soule thirsteth after thee, as a thirstie land, Selah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I spread forth my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee, as a dry land. Pause.
English Revised Version
I spread forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah
Berean Standard Bible
I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
Lexham English Bible
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul longs for you like a dry land. Selah
Literal Translation
I spread out my hands to You; my soul is to You like a weary land. Selah.
New Century Version
I lift my hands to you in prayer. As a dry land needs rain, I thirst for you. Selah
New English Translation
I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.
New Living Translation
I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude
New Life Bible
I put out my hands to You. My soul is thirsty for You like a dry land.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have spread out my hands unto thee, My soul, is as a thirsty land, for thee. Selah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(142-6) I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.
George Lamsa Translation
I stretch forth my hands to thee; my soul thirsts after thee, as a thirsty land.
Good News Translation
I lift up my hands to you in prayer; like dry ground my soul is thirsty for you.
New American Standard Bible
I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You, like a weary land. Selah
King James Version
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I stretche foorth myne handes vnto thee: my soule as a thirstie lande [gaspeth] vnto thee. Selah.
New Revised Standard
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
Darby Translation
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, [thirsteth] after thee. Selah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I helde forth myn hondis to thee; my soule as erthe with out water to thee.
Young's Literal Translation
I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul [is] as a weary land for Thee. Selah.
World English Bible
I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Revised Standard Version
I stretch out my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee like a parched land. [Selah]
Update Bible Version
I spread forth my hands to you: My soul [thirsts] after you, as a weary land. Selah.
Webster's Bible Translation
I stretch forth my hands to thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Bible in Basic English
My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I stretch forth my hondes vnto the, my soule crieth vnto the out of the thyrstie londe.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I stretch out my hands to You; My soul longs for You, as a parched land. Selah.
Legacy Standard Bible
I stretch out my hands to You;My soul reaches for You like a weary land. Selah.

Contextual Overview

1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, Give ear to my supplications! In Your faithfulness answer me, And in Your righteousness. 2 Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous. 3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in darkness, Like those who have long been dead. 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is distressed. 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands. 6 I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You like a thirsty land.Selah

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stretch forth: Psalms 44:20, Psalms 88:9, Job 11:13

my soul: Psalms 42:1, Psalms 42:2, Psalms 63:1, Psalms 84:2, Isaiah 26:8, Isaiah 26:9, Isaiah 35:7, John 7:37

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:63 - to meditate Exodus 9:29 - spread Deuteronomy 4:4 - General 1 Samuel 1:15 - poured 1 Chronicles 11:17 - longed 2 Chronicles 6:12 - spread forth Ezra 9:5 - spread Job 7:2 - earnestly desireth Psalms 28:2 - when Psalms 63:8 - followeth Psalms 68:31 - stretch Psalms 73:25 - none upon Psalms 116:4 - O Lord Isaiah 37:14 - and Hezekiah went Isaiah 55:1 - every Lamentations 3:41 - lift Habakkuk 3:9 - Selah Luke 6:21 - ye that hunger Luke 22:44 - being Revelation 7:16 - hunger

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I stretch forth my hands unto thee,.... In prayer, as the Targum adds; for this is a prayer gesture, 1 Kings 8:38; both hands were stretched forth, earnestly imploring help, and ready to receive and embrace every blessing bestowed with thankfulness;

my soul [thirsteth] after thee as a thirsty land. As a dry land, which wants water, gapes, and as it were thirsts for rain, which is very refreshing to it; so his soul thirsted after God, after his word and ordinances, after communion with him in them, after his grace and fresh supplies of it; particularly after pardoning grace and mercy, after the coming of Christ, and the blessings of grace by him; as reconciliation, atonement, righteousness, and salvation; after more knowledge of God and Christ, and divine truths; and after the enjoyment of them in heaven to all eternity. Some copies read, "in a thirsty land" x, and so some versions; see Psalms 42:1.

Selah; on this word, Psalms 42:1- :.

x בארץ Cod. Heb. Bomberg. Venet. "in terra siticulosa", Musculus, Tarnovius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I stretch forth my hands unto thee - In prayer. I have nowhere else to go. See Psalms 88:9.

My soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land - As land in a time of drought “seems” to thirst for rain. See the notes at Psalms 63:1. Compare Psalms 42:1. The word rendered “thirsty” here means properly “weary.” The idea is that of a land which seems to be weary; which has no vigor of growth; and where everything seems to be exhausted. The same word occurs in Isaiah 32:2 : “As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 143:6. I stretch forth my hands — This is a natural action. All in distress, or under the influence of eager desire, naturally extend their hands and arms, as if to catch at help and obtain succour.

As a thirsty land. — Parched and burned by the sun, longs for rain, so does my thirsty soul for the living God.


 
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