Zion spreadeth forth her hands— She extendeth her hands as a suppliant, praying for relief, and consolation: so Virgil says of Turnus:
Ille, humilis supplexque, oculos dextramque precantem Protendens. AEN. xii. l. 930.
Now low on earth the lofty chief is laid, With eyes cast upwards, and with arms display'd. DRYDEN.
See Psalms 88:9; Psalms 143:6.