There are many who pray: "Give us more blessings, O LORD. Look on us with kindness!"

But the joy that you have given me is more than they will ever have with all their grain and wine.

As a deer longs for a stream of cool water, so I long for you, O God.

I thirst for you, the living God. When can I go and worship in your presence?

O God, you are my God, and I long for you. My whole being desires you; like a dry, worn-out, and waterless land, my soul is thirsty for you.

Your constant love is better than life itself, and so I will praise you.

We follow your will and put our hope in you; you are all that we desire.

At night I long for you with all my heart; when you judge the earth and its people, they will all learn what justice is.

They said to each other, "Wasn't it like a fire burning in us when he talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?"

I am pulled in two directions. I want very much to leave this life and be with Christ, which is a far better thing;

and distributed food to them all. He gave each man and woman in Israel a loaf of bread, a piece of roasted meat, and some raisins. Then everyone went home.

The LORD said to me, "Go again and show your love for a woman who is committing adultery with a lover. You must love her just as I still love the people of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and like to take offerings of raisins to idols."

Promise me, women of Jerusalem, that if you find my lover, you will tell him I am weak from passion.

David's son Absalom had a beautiful unmarried sister named Tamar. Amnon, another of David's sons, fell in love with her.

He was so much in love with her that he became sick, because it seemed impossible for him to have her; as a virgin, she was kept from meeting men.

The explanation of your teachings gives light and brings wisdom to the ignorant.

In my desire for your commands I pant with open mouth.