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My spirit is faint within me,
    and my heart[a] has succumbed to fear.
I remember the days of old,
    reflecting on all your actions
    and meditating on the works of your hands.[b]
I stretch out my hands[c] to you;
    my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 143:4 Heart: see note on Ps 4:8.
  2. Psalm 143:5 See Pss 42:5; 77:6, 12f.
  3. Psalm 143:6 Stretch out my hands: in supplication (see Pss 44:21; 88:10; Ex 9:29). Soul: see note on Ps 6:4. Thirsts for you: see Ps 63:2.