Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
I spread out my hands to thee: my soul as a weary land for thee. Silence.
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
A Conservative Version
I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul [is] as a weary land for thee. Selah.
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.
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 remembered the days of old and I meditated in all thy work, and I will meditate upon the work of thy hands. 6 I spread out my hands to thee: my soul as a weary land for thee. Silence. 7 Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 63:1
Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water.
Job 11:13
If thou preparedst thy heart, and didst spread thy hands towards him;
Psalm 88:9
Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee.
Psalm 42:1-2
To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.
Psalm 44:20
If we forgat the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god:
Psalm 84:2
My soul longed after, and also failed for the enclosures of Jehovah: my heart and my flesh will rejoice for the living God.
Isaiah 26:8-9
Also the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, we hoped for thee; to thy name and to thy remembrance is the desire of the soul.
Isaiah 35:7
And the dry was for a pool, and the thirsty land for fountains of water: in the dwelling of jackals its lying down, an enclosure for the reed and the bulrush
John 7:37
In the last day, the great one of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come to me, and drink.