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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 143:6 Catholic Bible: I lift up my hands to you in prayer; like dry ground my soul is thirsty for you. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/psalms/143-6.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/psalms/143-6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/psalms/143-6.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/1.htm">Psalms</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/143.htm">Chapter 143</a> > Verse 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/143-5.htm" title="Psalm 143:5">◄</a> Psalm 143:6 {142:6} <a href="../psalms/143-7.htm" title="Psalm 143:7">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/psalms/143.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/psalms/143.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I lift up my hands to you in prayer; like dry ground my soul is thirsty for you. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/143.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/psalms/143.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Then I lift my hands in prayer, because my soul is a desert, thirsty for water from you. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/143.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I stretch out my hands toward you, my soul to you like a parched land. <i>Selah</i> <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/psalms/143.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.</p><p class="hdg">stretch forth</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/44-20.htm">Psalm 44:20</a> For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/88-9.htm">Psalm 88:9</a> My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/11-13.htm">Job 11:13</a> But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.</p><p class="hdg">my soul</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/42-1.htm">Psalm 42:1,2</a> Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. [2] As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/63-1.htm">Psalm 63:1</a> A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/84-2.htm">Psalm 84:2</a> my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/26-8.htm">Isaiah 26:8,9</a> And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/35-7.htm">Isaiah 35:7</a> And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. In the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall rise up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/7-37.htm">John 7:37</a> And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/psalms/143.htm">I Stretch Out My Hands to You</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl">I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.</span><span class="reftext">7</span>Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/9-29.htm">Exodus 9:29</a></span><br />Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/11-13.htm">Job 11:13</a></span><br />But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/42-2.htm">Psalm 42:2</a></span><br />My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/63-1.htm">Psalm 63:1</a></span><br />A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/63-4.htm">Psalm 63:4</a></span><br />Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/88-9.htm">Psalm 88:9</a></span><br />My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/55-1.htm">Isaiah 55:1</a></span><br />All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/142-7.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/psalms/143-5.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/psalms/130-6.htm">Longs</a> <a href="/psalms/142-6.htm">Need</a> <a href="/psalms/107-35.htm">Parched</a> <a href="/psalms/140-8.htm">Selah</a> <a href="/psalms/143-3.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/psalms/140-5.htm">Spread</a> <a href="/psalms/138-7.htm">Stretch</a> <a href="/psalms/138-7.htm">Stretched</a> <a href="/psalms/63-1.htm">Thirsteth</a> <a href="/psalms/63-1.htm">Thirsts</a> <a href="/psalms/107-33.htm">Thirsty</a> <a href="/psalms/141-8.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/psalms/119-136.htm">Water</a> <a href="/psalms/119-28.htm">Weary</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/144-6.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/psalms/143-9.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-18.htm">Longs</a> <a href="/psalms/146-7.htm">Need</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-13.htm">Parched</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-1.htm">Selah</a> <a href="/psalms/143-8.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-17.htm">Spread</a> <a href="/psalms/144-7.htm">Stretch</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-17.htm">Stretched</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-1.htm">Thirsteth</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-1.htm">Thirsts</a> <a href="/proverbs/25-21.htm">Thirsty</a> <a href="/psalms/146-4.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/psalms/147-17.htm">Water</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-11.htm">Weary</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/psalms/143-6.htm">Psalm 143:6 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a as for hands I land like longs my out parched Selah soul spread stretch thirsts to you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/psalms/143-6.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 143:6 I spread forth my hands to you (Psalm Ps Psa.) 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