Thematic Bible: Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84


Thematic Bible




My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.


With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.


Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire. And He was found by them, and Jehovah gave them rest all around.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;


I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for Your Commandments.


meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.


And for a long time Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.


Behold, the days come, says the Lord Jehovah, that 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 have sunk in the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her kings and her rulers are among the nations. The Law is no more; also her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.


Disaster on disaster shall come, and rumor to rumor shall be. And they shall seek a vision from the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and wisdom from the elders.

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


And none thinks within his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and hear not, for they are a rebellious house.

A beastly man does not know; nor does a fool understand this.

Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and the earth, but how is it that you do not discern this time?





The poor and needy seek water, and there is none; their tongue fails for thirst, I Jehovah will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.

For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.


A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.

For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.

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



And give to Your servant an understanding heart, to judge Your people, to discern between good and bad. For who is able to judge this, Your great people?

And He is made to breathe in the fear of Jehovah. And He shall not judge according to the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.

Butter and honey he shall eat until he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.



Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of My people not come?

Why should you be stricken any more? You will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.


For her wounds are not curable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of My people, to Jerusalem.

When Jesus heard, He said to them, They who are strong have no need of a physician, but the ones who have illness. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.