What one does with one's body here is a metonym for the purpose of doing so. The Israelites would commonly pray while standing with their hands raised and spread out at their sides. AT: "pray to you with my hands lifted up at my sides" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
The psalmist speaks of wanting to be with God as if he were in a parched land and he also was about to die of thirst. AT: "I want to be with you the way a person in a parched land who is very thirsty wants water" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# my soul thirsts for you
The psalmist desires to know Yahweh. The intensity of his desire to know Yahweh is like one who is very thirsty. AT: "I long for you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# my soul
The soul is a metonym for the person. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
# parched land
A land where everything has died because there is no water.
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