925 verses about Desires

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

“Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

May He grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

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

Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

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

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

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

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

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

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

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

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

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.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

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

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

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

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

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

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

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

Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

“This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

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

You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.