Psalms 143:6

World English Bible (2000)

I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 63:1 : 1 God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
  • Job 11:13 : 13 "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
  • Ps 88:9 : 9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
  • Isa 26:8-9 : 8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. 9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
  • Isa 35:7 : 7 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
  • John 7:37 : 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
  • Ps 42:1-2 : 1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, 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 spread forth our hands to a strange god;
  • Ps 84:2 : 2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

  • Ps 42:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

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

  • Ps 143:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

    8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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

  • 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

  • Ps 143:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

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

    5 I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

  • 3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

  • 8 My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

  • 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

  • Ps 141:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

    2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    75%

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

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 25 My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

  • 9 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

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

  • Ps 6:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

    3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?

  • 2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

  • 20 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

  • 9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

  • 7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

  • 4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul."

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    73%

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

    5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • Ps 61:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

    2 From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

  • 6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

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

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

  • 28 My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

  • 8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.

  • 8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

  • 16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • 6 I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

  • 11 Revive me, Yahweh, for your name's sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

  • 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

  • 9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

  • 6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

  • 6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

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

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    6 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

  • Ps 142:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

    5 I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

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

  • 15 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

  • 1 To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.