'Longing' in the Bible
Now, you can go if you must go, because you certainly are longing to go to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?"
David expressed his longing, "Oh, how I wish someone would get me a drink of water from the Bethlehem well that's by the city gate!"
David expressed a longing, "Oh, how I wish someone would get me a drink of water from the Bethlehem well that's by the city gate!"
To those who are longing for death even though it does not come? To those who search for it more than for hidden treasure?
My soul is consumed with longing for your decrees at all times.
I am longing for your deliverance, LORD, and your instruction is my joy.
I stretch out my hands toward you, longing for you like a parched land. Interlude
What the wicked fears will come about, but the longing of the righteous will be granted.
Delayed hope makes the heart ill, but fulfilled longing is a tree of life.
Fulfilled longing is sweet to the soul, but avoiding evil is detestable to the fool.
But Pharaoh's protection will become your shame, and sheltering in Egypt's shadow your longing.
For I am longing to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong,
and not only by his arrival but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing for me, your sorrow, and your eagerness to take my side, and this made me even happier.
See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter.
For he has been longing for all of you and is troubled because you heard that he was sick.
recalling your tears and longing to see you so that I can be filled with joy.
Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
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- Ambition (12 instances)
- Anxiety (41 instances)
- Aspiration (1 instance)
- Coveting (3 instances)
- Eagerness (19 instances)
- Long (831 instances)
- Longing (52 instances)
- Yearn (23 instances)
- Yearning (14 instances)
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