Thematic Bible: Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84
Thematic Bible
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth.
With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
desire the sincere milk of the Word, as newborn babes, so that you may grow by it;
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire. And He was found by them, and Jehovah gave them rest all around.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
My Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.
Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
And for a long time Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of Jehovah.
Her gates have sunk in the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her kings and her rulers are among the nations. The Law is no more; also her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.
We did not see our signs; there is no prophet any more; neither is there among us any who knows how long.
Disaster on disaster shall come, and rumor to rumor shall be. And they shall seek a vision from the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and wisdom from the elders.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land. And he began to be in want.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Dullness, condemned
And none thinks within his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they are a rebellious house.
A beastly man does not know; nor does a fool understand this.
Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and the earth, but how is it that you do not discern this time?
Why do you not know My speech? Because you cannot hear My Word.
there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God."
of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained since you are dull of hearing.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue fails for thirst, I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.
For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.
God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.
For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Discernment
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
And give to Your servant an understanding heart, to judge Your people, to discern between good and bad. For who is able to judge this, Your great people?
And He is made to breathe in the fear of Jehovah. And He shall not judge according to the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.
Butter and honey he shall eat until he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.
But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Disease
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of My people not come?
Why should you be stricken any more? You will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
For so says Jehovah, Your break cannot be cured, and your wound is grievous.
For her wounds are not curable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of My people, to Jerusalem.
When Jesus heard, He said to them, They who are strong have no need of a physician, but the ones who have illness. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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