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Psalm 143:6 (WEB)
I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

Fathers and councils · 7

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XIII.17Book XIII
“Who, O Lord, unless Thou, saidst, Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, which “thirsteth after Thee”?” — editor's note: Ps. cxliii. 6, and lxiii. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 66
““My soul is as it were land without water to Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxliii. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 143
““I stretched forth,” saith he, “my hands to Thee: my soul is as a land without water to Thee” (ver. 6).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 148
“For good were it for thee to say to God, “My soul hath thirsted for Thee.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxliii. 6; Ps. lxiii. 1; Matt. v. 6.
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 81
“Say then thou dry and parched one, that thou mayest be filled again; ‘My soul is as earth without water unto Thee.’” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. 6, Sept. (cxliii. English version).
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Tertullian, On Prayer Chapter 14
“…Himself; and on that account, as being hereditary culprits from their privity to their fathers’ crimes, they do not dare even to raise them unto the Lord, for fear some Isaiah should cry out, for fear Christ should utterly shudder.” — editor's note: I do not know Tertullian’s authority for this statement. Certainly Solomon did raise his hands (1 Kings viii. 54), and David apparently his (see Ps. cxliii. 6;…
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Gregory of Nyssa, On the Baptism of Christ
“…he speaks, by the figure of the desert, of the soul that is parched and unadorned, even as David also, when he says, “My soul is unto Thee as a thirsty land,” and, “My soul is athirst for the mighty, for the living God.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxliii. 6 (LXX.).
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