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Psalms 143:6

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— I stretch out my hands to You; My soul [longs] for You, as a parched land. Selah.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— I spread forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a weary land. [Selah]
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a weary land. Selah.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— I stretch forth my hands to thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, [thirsteth] after thee. Selah.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— I have spread out my hands unto thee, My soul, is as a thirsty land, for thee. [Selah.]
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— I have spread forth my hands unto Thee, My soul [is] as a weary land for Thee. Selah.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— I stretch forth mine hands vnto thee: my soule desireth after thee, as the thirstie land. Selah.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— I stretch forth my hands vnto thee: my soule [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirstie land, Selah.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— I stretch forth my hands to thee; my soul thirsts after thee, as a thirsty land.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— I spread forth my hands to thee; my soul [thirsts] for thee, as a dry land. Pause.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
I stretch forth 6566
{6566} Prime
פָּרַשׂ
paras
{paw-ras'}
A primitive root; to break apart, disperse, etc.
z8765
<8765> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 2121
my hands 3027
{3027} Prime
יָד
yad
{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
unto thee: x413
(0413) Complement
אֵל
'el
{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
my soul 5315
{5315} Prime
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
{neh'-fesh}
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).
[thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty 5889
{5889} Prime
עָיֵף
`ayeph
{aw-yafe'}
From H5888; languid.
land. 776
{0776} Prime
אֶרֶץ
'erets
{eh'-rets}
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land).
Selà סֶלָה. 5542
{5542} Prime
סֶלָה
celah
{seh'-law}
From H5541; suspension (of music), that is, pause.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 143:5-6.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 143:1-6.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 143:6

As land — Thirsteth for rain.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
stretch forth:

Psalms 44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psalms 88:9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Job 11:13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

my soul:

Psalms 42:1-2 [[To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.]] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ... My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psalms 63:1 [[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.]] O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms 84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Isaiah 26:8-9 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. ... With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Isaiah 35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes.
John 7:37 In the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
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Jb 11:13. Ps 42:1; 44:20; 63:1; 84:2; 88:9. Is 26:8; 35:7. Jn 7:37.

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