'Yearn' in the Bible

Seek the Lord and His strength;Seek His face continually [longing to be in His presence].

He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek and worship and honor the Lord.

They entered into a covenant (solemn agreement) to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

everyone who sets his heart to seek God—the Lord God of his fathers—even though it is not in accordance with the [ceremonial] purification [rules] of the sanctuary.”

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young (sixteen), he began to seek after and inquire of the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and cast images.

For Ezra had set his heart (resolved) to study and interpret the Law of the Lord, and to practice it and teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.

“[Then] You will call, and I will answer You;You will long for [me] the work of Your hands.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his face, will not seek nor inquire for Him;All his thoughts are, “There is no God [so there is no accountability or punishment].”

But as for the land to which they long to return, they will not return to it.

“I will gather those [Israelites in captivity] who grieve about the appointed feasts—They came from you, [O Zion];On whom the reproach [of exile] is a burden.

For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our [immortal, eternal] celestial dwelling,

and they also long for you while they pray on your behalf, because of the surpassing measure of God’s grace [His undeserved favor, mercy, and blessing which is revealed] in you.

Therefore, my fellow believers, whom I love and long for, my delight and crown [my wreath of victory], in this way stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

and as I recall your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.