'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?"

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

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?

“Oh that my request might come to pass,And that God would grant my longing!

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble and oppressed;You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear to hear,

O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

My eyes fail with longing for Your word,While I say, “When will You comfort me?”

My eyes fail with longing for Your salvationAnd for Your righteous word.

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.

For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

It is better to be content with what the eyes can see than for one's heart always to crave more. This continual longing is futile -- like chasing the wind.

It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating,then wakes and is still hungry;and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.So it will be for all the many nationswho go to battle against Mount Zion.

But Pharaoh's protection will become your shame, and sheltering in Egypt's shadow your longing.

Therefore the Lord waits [expectantly] and longs to be gracious to you,And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.For the Lord is a God of justice;Blessed (happy, fortunate) are all those who long for Him [since He will never fail them].

As for the land to which they are {longing} to return, they will not return.

Then the remnant of Judah—those going to live for a while there in the land of Egypt—will have no fugitive or survivor to return to the land of Judah where they are longing to return to live, for they will not return except for a few fugitives.”

“How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.

Say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and your soul's longing; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.

“‘Son of man, know that on the day I take their stronghold from them, their pride and joy, the delight of their eyes and the longing of their hearts, as well as their sons and daughters,

Alas, you who are longing for the day of the Lord,For what purpose will the day of the Lord be to you?It will be darkness and not light;