My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
Parallel translations
- KJV My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
- BSB My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
- NKJV My soul breaks with longing For Your judgments at all times.
- NASB My soul is crushed with longing For Your ordinances at all times.
- NLT I am always overwhelmed with a desire for your regulations.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 42:1–2For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
- Ps 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Ps 63:1A 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.
- Job 23:11–12My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
- Ps 119:131I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
- Ps 119:174I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
- Ps 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
- Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
- Prov 17:17A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
- Rev 3:15–16“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
- Ps 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
- Song 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
- Prov 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
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