Psalms 143:6
Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
In Context
5O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Cross References
Exodus 9:29Moses said: “When I have departed from the city, I will extend my hands to the Lord, and the thunders will cease, and the hail will not be, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.
Job 11:13But you have fortified your heart and extended your hands to him.
Psalms 42:3Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.
Psalms 63:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 88:9O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.
Isaiah 26:8And in the path of your judgments, O Lord, we have endured for you. Your name and your remembrance are the desire of the soul.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 143:2-7
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. 5 I remember the days of old; I meditate… Read the whole commentary →