Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
- BSB Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
- NKJV Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O Lord, we have waited for You; The desire of our soul is for Your name And for the remembrance of You.
- NASB Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, Lord, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, and remembering You, is the desire of our souls.
- NLT Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws; our heart’s desire is to glorify your name.
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Quick answer
Walking in God's ways, His people wait for Him, longing for His name and renown. Their deepest desire is for God Himself.
Overview
Even amid His judgments, the faithful wait on the Lord and yearn for His name. Their souls desire His honor above all. The verse models the believer's patient, God-centered longing that finds its rest only in knowing and glorifying God.
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Cross-references · 31
- Ps 37:3–7Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
- Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
- Isa 33:2O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
- Exod 3:15And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
- Ps 65:6Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
- 2 Th 3:5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
- Rom 8:25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
- Acts 1:4And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
- 2 Sam 23:5Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
- Job 23:10–12But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
- Song 1:2–4Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
- Ps 73:25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
- Ps 18:23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
- Ps 77:10–12And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
- Song 5:8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
- Ps 106:3Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
- Num 36:13These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
- Ps 63:1–3O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
- Ps 44:17–18All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
- Ps 84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
- Isa 25:9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
- Song 2:3–5As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
- Isa 56:1Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
- Isa 12:4And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
- Ps 143:5–6I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
- Isa 64:4–5For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
- Isa 30:18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
- Mal 4:4Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
- Ps 13:1–2How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- Mic 7:7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
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