DESIRE

Passages on this topic · 107

• Deuteronomy 4:29

  But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Psalms 9:1

  For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David. I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

• Psalms 17:1

  A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

• Psalms 22:26

  The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

• Psalms 24:6

  This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face — even Jacob. Selah.

• Psalms 25:5

  Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

• Psalms 25:15

  My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

• Psalms 27:8

  When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

• Psalms 27:14

  Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

• Psalms 33:20

  Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

• Psalms 34:10

  The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

• Psalms 37:4

  Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

• Psalms 37:7

  Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

• Psalms 37:9

  For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

• Psalms 37:34

  Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

• Psalms 39:12

  “Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

• Psalms 40:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

• Psalms 40:8

  I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

• Psalms 42:1

  For 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.

• Psalms 42:2

  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

• Psalms 42:3

  My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 42:4

  These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

• Psalms 42:5

  Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

• Psalms 42:6

  My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

• Psalms 42:7

  Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

• Psalms 42:8

  Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

• Psalms 42:9

  I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

• Psalms 42:10

  As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 42:11

  Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

• Psalms 51:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

• Psalms 51:2

  Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

• Psalms 51:3

  For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

• Psalms 51:4

  Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

• Psalms 51:5

  Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

• Psalms 51:6

  Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

• Psalms 51:7

  Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

• Psalms 51:8

  Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

• Psalms 51:9

  Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

• Psalms 51:10

  Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

• Psalms 51:11

  Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

• Psalms 51:12

  Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

• Psalms 51:13

  Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

• Psalms 51:14

  Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

• Psalms 51:15

  Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

• Psalms 51:16

  For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

• Psalms 51:17

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

• Psalms 62:1

  For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

• Psalms 63:1

  A 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.

• Psalms 63:8

  My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

• Psalms 68:28

  Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

• Psalms 69:3

  I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

• Psalms 69:32

  The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

• Psalms 70:4

  Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

• Psalms 81:10

  I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

• Psalms 84:2

  My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

• Psalms 86:11

  Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

• Psalms 86:12

  I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.

• Psalms 86:16

  Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.

• Psalms 94:19

  In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

• Psalms 105:4

  Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

• Psalms 118:17

  I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

• Psalms 119:2

  Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

• Psalms 119:10

  With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

• Psalms 119:20

  My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

• Psalms 119:40

  Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW

• Psalms 119:77

  Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

• Psalms 119:88

  Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMED

• Psalms 119:116

  Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

• Psalms 119:117

  Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

• Psalms 119:122

  Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.

• Psalms 119:133

  Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

• Psalms 119:149

  Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.

• Psalms 119:156

  Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.

• Psalms 123:1

  A Song of Ascents. To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

• Psalms 123:2

  Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

• Psalms 130:5

  I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

• Psalms 130:6

  My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

• Psalms 143:5

  I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

• Psalms 143:6

  I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

• Proverbs 2:3

  Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

• Proverbs 2:4

  If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

• Proverbs 2:5

  then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

• Proverbs 8:17

  I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

• Proverbs 8:34

  Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

• Isaiah 8:17

  I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

• Isaiah 8:19

  When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

• Isaiah 26:8

  Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

• Isaiah 26:9

  With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

• Isaiah 40:31

  But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

• Isaiah 55:1

  “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

• Isaiah 55:2

  Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

• Isaiah 55:6

  Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

• Jeremiah 29:13

  You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

• Lamentations 3:25

  Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

• Lamentations 3:26

  It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

• Lamentations 3:41

  Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

• Hosea 10:12

  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

• Habakkuk 3:2

  Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

• Matthew 5:6

  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

• Luke 6:21

  Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

• Luke 10:42

  but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

• John 12:20

  Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

• John 12:21

  These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

• Philippians 3:12

  Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

• Philippians 3:13

  Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

• Philippians 3:14

  I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

• Hebrews 11:6

  Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.