Thematic Bible: Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84


Thematic Bible




My soul was crushed for the desire to thy judgments in all time.


My soul desired thee in the night; also my spirit in the midst of me I will seek thee: for when thy judgments to the earth, those dwelling in the habitable globe will learn justice.


Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

And all Judah will rejoice at the oath: for with all their heart they sware, and with all their desire they sought him, and he will be found to them: and Jehovah will give rest to them from round about.

Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water.


I opened wide my mouth, and I shall pant: for I longed for thy commands.


Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.


And many days to Israel for not a God of truth, and for no priest teaching, and for no law.


Behold, the days coming, says the Lord Jehovah, and I sent famine into the land; not a faniine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.

Her gates sank into the earth; he destroyed and broke her bars: her king and her chiefs among the nations: no law: also her prophets found not a vision from Jehovah.


And ruin upon ruin shall come, and report shall be to report; and they sought a vision from the prophet; and law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the old men.

And having spent all things, a powerful famine was in that country; and he began to be in want.


And none will set to his heart; and not knowledge, and not understanding to say, Half of it I burnt in the fire; and also I baked bread upon its coals; I will roast flesh and eat: and its remainder shall I make for an abomination? shall I fall down to a trunk of wood?

Son of man, thou art dwelling in the midst of a house of contradiction, which to them eyes to see, and they saw not: ears to them to hear, and they heard not: for they are a house of contradiction.

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.




Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing.


The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.

For this my people were carried into exile from not knowing; and their honor, men of famine, and their multitude dry with thirst


Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water.

For ye shall be as an oak the leaf withering, and as a garden which there no water to it.

And he was as ruins in the sterile region, and he shall not see when good shall come; he inherited the arid places in the desert, a salt land, and it shall not be inhabited.

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



And give to thy servant a heart to hear to judge thy people to discern between good to evil: for who shall be able to judge this thy weighty people?

His sweet odor in the fear of Jehovah: and not according to the seeing of his eyes shall he judge, and not according to the hearing of his ears shall he decide.

Curdled milk and honey he shall eat, for his knowing to reject in evil, and to choose in good.



Is there no balsam in Gilead, or healing there? for wherefore did not the health of the daughter of my people go up?

For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick


For her blow is incurable, for it came even to Judah; he touched even to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

And Jesus having heard, says to them, They being strong have no need of a physician, but those being affected: I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.