Thematic Bible: Desired


Thematic Bible



As soon as I shall send Artemus unto thee, or Tychicus, give diligence to come to me unto Nicopolis; for, there, have I determined to winter.

And, taking with him, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be grieved and to be in great distress.

Give diligence to come, before winter. There salute thee - Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and allthe brethren.

Since he hath been longing to see, you all, and hath been in great distress, because ye had heard he was sick; -




Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me:

Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant! That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off! So might it still be my comfort, And I might exult in the anguish he would not spare, - That I had not concealed the sayings of the Holy One. read more.
What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire?

Is there not a warfare to a mortal, upon earth? And, as the days of a hireling, are not his days? As, a bondman, panteth for the shadow, and as, a hireling, longeth for his wage, So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than these my bones! I am wasted away, Not, to times age-abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days.


And verily, in this, we sigh, earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves over, with our habitation which is of heaven, -


According to my eager outlook and hope, that, in nothing, shall I be put to shame, but, with all freedom of speech, as always, now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether through means of life, or of death. For, unto me - living, is Christ, and, dying, gain. But, if living in flesh, is Christ , this, unto me, is a fruit of work, - and, what I shall choose, I make not known: read more.
I am held in constraint, however, by reason of the two, - having, the coveting, to be released, and to be with, Christ, for it were far better!


Then shall, death, be chosen rather than life, by all the remnant of them that remain, of this wicked family, - in all the places, whither I have driven them, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.



But if, in this way, thou art going to deal with me, slay me, I beseech thee, slay, if I have found favour in thine eyes, - and let me not see my grief,


But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day's journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub, - and asked for his life, that he might die, and said - Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.


Now, dost thou dismiss thy servant, O Sovereign, according to thy declaration - in peace;


And it came to pass, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint, - and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were better for me, to die, than, to live.