Thematic Bible: Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84


Thematic Bible




My soul is broken from desiring thy judgments at all times.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? And apart from thee there is nothing upon the earth that I desire.

With my soul I desire thee in the night; yea, even as long as the spirit is within me I will seek thee early: for as long as thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.


Blessed are those that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed are those that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

And all those of Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them; and the LORD gave them rest round about.



I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for thy commandments.


perverse disputings of men of corrupt understanding, and destitute of the truth, using piety as a source of gain: from such withdraw thyself.


For many days Israel has been without the true God, and without a priest and without a teacher and without law,


Behold, the days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine to the earth, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

Teth Her gates were thrown to the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are carried off among the Gentiles; there is no law; nor have her prophets found vision from the LORD.

We no longer see our own banners; there is no longer any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows. How long shall this be?

Destruction shall come upon destruction, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then they shall seek an answer from the prophet, but the law shall perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.


He does not return to his right mind; he does not have knowledge nor intelligence to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; I have also baked bread upon the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Do I have to humble myself before the trunk of a tree?

Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see and do not see; they have ears to hear and do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.

A carnal man does not know, neither does a fool understand this:

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?





The poor and needy seek the waters that are not; their tongue fails for thirst; I the LORD will hear them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; their glory died of hunger, and their multitude dried up of thirst.



For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf falls and as a garden that has no water.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.



Give, therefore, thy slave a hearing heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this thy so great a people?

and shall make him of quick olfaction in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge according to the sight of his eyes, neither reprove according to the hearing of his ears:

He shall eat butter and honey that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.



Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then was there no medicine for the daughter of my people?

Why should I chastise you any more? Ye will revolt more and more; every head is sick, and every heart faint.


For her wound is painful, for it is come unto Judah; it is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

When Jesus heard it, he said unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.