Thematic Bible: Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84


Thematic Bible




My soul is crushed with longing
After Your ordinances at all times.


At night my soul longs for You,
Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;
For when the earth experiences Your judgments
The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.


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

All Judah rejoiced concerning the oath, for they had sworn with their whole heart and had sought Him earnestly, and He let them find Him. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.


I opened my mouth wide and panted,
For I longed for Your commandments.


and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.


For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law.


“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather for hearing the words of the Lord.

Her gates have sunk into the ground,
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations;
The law is no more.
Also, her prophets find
No vision from the Lord.


Disaster will come upon disaster and rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.

Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished.


No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!”

“Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.

A senseless man has no knowledge,
Nor does a stupid man understand this:

You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?



Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.


“The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,
And their tongue is parched with thirst;
I, the Lord, will answer them Myself,
As the God of Israel I will not forsake them.

Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;
And their honorable men are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.


A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away
Or as a garden that has no water.

“For he will be like a bush in the desert
And will not see when prosperity comes,
But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,
A land of salt without inhabitant.

“In that day the beautiful virgins
And the young men will faint from thirst.



So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.



Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

Where will you be stricken again,
As you continue in your rebellion?
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint.


For her wound is incurable,
For it has come to Judah;
It has reached the gate of my people,
Even to Jerusalem.

And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”


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