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.
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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
- 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 Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
- Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
- Isa 33:2Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
- Exod 3:15God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
- Ps 65:6Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;
- 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
- Rom 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
- Acts 1:4Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
- 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
- Job 23:10–12But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
- Song 1:2–4Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
- Ps 73:25Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
- Ps 18:23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
- Ps 77:10–12Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
- Song 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
- Ps 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
- Num 36:13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
- Ps 63:1–3A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
- Ps 44:17–18All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
- Ps 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Isa 25:9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! 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, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
- Isa 56:1Yahweh says, “Maintain justice, and do what is right; for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
- Isa 12:4In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
- Ps 143:5–6I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.
- Isa 64:4–5For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
- Isa 30:18Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
- Mal 4:4“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
- Ps 13:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
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