Thematic Bible: Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84
Thematic Bible
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Ps 42; 84
One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I 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 inquire of him in his temple.
Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,
Blessed ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh.
And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they took the oath with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them. And Jehovah gave them rest round about.
{A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:
Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Destitution of the truth
constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
Now for a long while Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;
that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Behold, days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, when 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 are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.
We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Dullness, condemned
And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not, which have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.
A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.
Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the earth and of the heaven; how is it then that ye do not discern this time?
Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.
there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.
Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
The afflicted and the needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue faileth for thirst: I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
{A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:
For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and 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 folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;
Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad; for who is able to judge this thy numerous people?
And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing 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 is there no dressing applied for the healing of the daughter of my people?
Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
For thus saith Jehovah: Thy bruise is incurable, thy wound is grievous.
For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
And Jesus having heard it says to them, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those who are ill. I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners.
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