Easter Season · A Ninth Reading Easter Vigil · Year B
Psalm 143
My Soul Thirsts for You
March 28, 2027
Overview & Insights
“My soul thirsts for you like a parched land.” (Psalm 143:6)
This individual prayer psalm is highly formulaic, that is, it consists of stock phrases repeated elsewhere in the Psalms (v. 3 // 7:5; Lam. 3:6; v. 4 // 77:3; 142:3; vv. 5–6 // 77:2, 5, 12; v. 6 // 63:1; v. 7 // 69:17; 88:4, 14; 102:2; v. 8 // 90:14; in general cf. Pss. 25; 86; further parallels listed in Culley, Oral Formulaic Language , p. 107). Yet it reflects an intimacy with God that is strikingly singular among the psalms.
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Psalm 143 (Hope for the Persecuted Soul) Enduring Word · David Guzik
David Guzik's verse by verse study of David's plea for mercy and morning deliverance, the last penitential psalm.
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What is Psalm 143?
A prayer of one pursued and faint of spirit, thirsting for God like dry ground and asking to be taught the way he should go, for he lifts up his soul to the Lord.
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