Psalms 143:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

I stretch forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a thirsty land. Selah.

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  • Ps 63:1 : 1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where there is no water;
  • Job 11:13 : 13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him;
  • Ps 88:9 : 9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
  • Isa 26:8-9 : 8 Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; the desire of our soul is for Your name and for the remembrance of You. 9 With my soul I have desired You in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
  • Isa 35:7 : 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
  • John 7:37 : 37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
  • Ps 42:1-2 : 1 As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
  • Ps 44:20 : 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where there is no water;

  • Ps 42:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.

    2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

  • Ps 143:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails: do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

    8Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for I trust in You: cause me to know the way I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.

  • 2My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

  • 4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

  • Ps 143:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

    5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I contemplate the work of Your hands.

  • 3I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • 8My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.

  • 2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night and did not rest; my soul refused to be comforted.

  • Ps 141:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1LORD, I cry to you; make haste to me; listen to my voice when I cry to you.

    2Let my prayer be set before you as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 25DALETH. My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to Your word.

  • 9My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you.

  • 131I opened my mouth and panted, for I longed for Your commandments.

  • Ps 6:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

    3My soul is also greatly troubled: but You, O LORD, how long?

  • 2Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

  • 20My soul breaks with longing for Your judgments at all times.

  • 9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

  • 7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.

  • 4Then I called upon the name of the LORD: O LORD, I beg You, deliver my soul.

  • Ps 102:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

    5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • Ps 61:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.

    2From the ends of the earth I will cry to you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

  • 6I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God; incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.

  • 9Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

  • 16Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

  • 28My soul melts from heaviness; strengthen me according to Your word.

  • 8But my eyes are upon you, O GOD the Lord; in you is my trust; do not leave my soul destitute.

  • 8When You said, 'Seek My face,' my heart said to You, 'Your face, LORD, I will seek.'

  • 16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • 6I said to the LORD, You are my God; hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

  • 11Revive me, O LORD, for Your name’s sake; for Your righteousness’ sake, bring my soul out of trouble.

  • 5My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:

  • 9With my soul I have desired You in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

  • 6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

  • 6My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning; yes, more than those who watch for the morning.

  • 5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • 72%

    6I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

  • Ps 142:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no one who would know me; refuge failed me; no one cared for my soul.

    5I cried unto You, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

  • 1Out of the depths I have cried to you, O LORD.

  • 15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the yearning of your heart and your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?

  • 1To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul.