Thematic Bible: Desired


Thematic Bible



When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, give diligence to come to me at Nicopolis where I will winter. Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Support ForPaul, Life OfWinterVisiting

He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. He was sorrowful and very troubled. Verse ConceptsChrist Going With PeopleTwo SonsDepression

Do your utmost to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers. Verse ConceptsWinterBrotherhoodeffort

He longed to see you and was worried because you had heard that he was sick. Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingOther Sad People


I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness. Verse ConceptsComplaintsHealthBeing BitterResentment, Against GodSelf PitySuicideWeariness Of LifeLife DespisedDeath DesiredComplainingBitternesstiredventing

If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me! Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant what I long for. Oh that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut me off! Then I would still have this consolation, my joy in unrelenting pain, that I had not denied the words of the Holy One. read more.
What strength do I have, that I should wait and hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?

Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand. It is like a worker who longs for the day to end, like a servant waiting to be paid. I am allotted months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.

I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this. I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.

In this we sigh (in silent prayer), longing to be clothed with our habitation that is from heaven. Verse ConceptsThirstWearinessClothed With Good ThingsChanging DirectionRight DesiresTaken To Heaven


I will not be put to shame according to my earnest expectation and hope. With all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in me, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I live in the flesh this will bring fruit from my labor. I do not know what to choose. read more.
I am hard pressed between the two. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ for it is far better.

Then the few who remain from these wicked people will want to die rather than live where I will scatter them, declares Jehovah of Hosts. Verse ConceptsBanishmentDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceDesire For DeathSurvivors Of The NationsSurvivors ThreatenedFamily LoveLove And FamilyFamily Death


If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer. Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead. Verse ConceptsDisappointments, Examples OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceJourneyUniversality Of DeathLonelinessPrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, Doubts AboutSelf PitySittingTreesComplaintsUnwise PrayersDesire For DeathDimensions Of Other ThingsTemporary Stay In The WildernessDeathDepression


When the sun rose God prepared a sultry (burning hot) east wind. So the sun beat upon the head of Jonah and he grew faint. He requested for himself that he might die. He said: It is better for me to die than to live! Verse ConceptsFaintingeastDespondency, Examples OfHeatHopelessnessThe SunWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWindCynicismWanting To DieAdvantagesOut Of The EastGod Dispensing WindDesire For DeathHot WeatherGod Appointing OthersLife DespisedrelaxingjonahThe East Wind