Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Access to God » Saints earnestly seek
I have asked one thing from Jehovah. This I will seek: to live in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look at Jehovah's beauty and search for an answer in his temple.
O send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me! Let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling places.
([Psalm of Korah]) How lovely are your dwelling places, O Jehovah of Hosts! How I want to be there! I long to be in Jehovah's temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.
Affections » Of saints, supremely set on God
Who have I in heaven but you? I desire none on earth except you.
With all my heart I have sought you. Do not let me wander from your commandments.
Animals » Names of » Deer
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope (chamois) and the mountain sheep.
Zeruiah's three sons were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as fast on his feet as a wild gazelle.
Some brave and experienced warriors from the tribe of Gad also defected to David while he was at the stronghold in the wilderness. They were expert with both shield and spear, as fierce as lions and as swift as deer on the mountains.
She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love.
Deliver your self like a deer from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler (bird catcher).
The lame will leap and dance, and those who cannot speak will shout for joy. Streams of water will flow through the desert plain.
Even deer in the fields give birth and abandon their young because there is no grass.
Communion with God » Saints » Desires
I am hard pressed between the two. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ for it is far better.
God » Love to » Examples of
Who have I in heaven but you? I desire none on earth except you.
For God is not unrighteous (unjust) to forget your work and the love you showed for his name. You ministered to the holy ones and continue to minister.
How I want to be there! I long to be in Jehovah's temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.
We love, because he first loved us.
([Psalm of David]) I love you, O Jehovah, my strength.
I love Jehovah because he hears my voice when I pray.
The Heart » Illustrative » (panting for water,) of afflicted saints longing for God
([Sons of Korah]) As the deer desires the water brooks, so I desire you, O God. I thirst for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Love » The test » To God
Who have I in heaven but you? I desire none on earth except you.
For God is not unrighteous (unjust) to forget your work and the love you showed for his name. You ministered to the holy ones and continue to minister.
How I want to be there! I long to be in Jehovah's temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.
We love, because he first loved us.
([Psalm of David]) I love you, O Jehovah, my strength.
I love Jehovah because he hears my voice when I pray.
Music » Maschil » This musical sign occurs in the titles of
([Psalm of David]) Why do you brag about the evil you have done, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God endures continually!
([Psalm of David]) The fool has said in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah)*. They are corrupt and have done abominable (detestable) iniquity. There are none who do good. (*Possible deliberate scribal change from YHWH to Elohim)
([Psalm of Ethan the Ezrahite]) I will sing of the loving kindness of Jehovah forever. With my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
([Psalm of Asaph]) God, why have you rejected us forever? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture?
([Psalm of Asaph]) Listen, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
([Psalm of David]) Blessed is the person whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned.
([Sons of Korah]) O God, we have heard with our ears and our fathers told us about the work that you did in their days, in the days of old.
Beautiful words fill my mind and stir my heart, as I compose this song for the king. Like the pen of a skilful writer (copyist) my tongue is ready with a poem.
([Psalm of David]) Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.
Righteous » Compared with » Thirsting deer
compared to Saints » Thirsting deer
Spiritual » Examples of love for Christ » Examples of love to God
Who have I in heaven but you? I desire none on earth except you.
For God is not unrighteous (unjust) to forget your work and the love you showed for his name. You ministered to the holy ones and continue to minister.
How I want to be there! I long to be in Jehovah's temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.
We love, because he first loved us.
([Psalm of David]) I love you, O Jehovah, my strength.
I love Jehovah because he hears my voice when I pray.
Thirst » Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mind
And he said to me: It is done! I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who thirsts from the fountain of the water of life freely.
The Spirit and the bride say: Come And let him who hears say: Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him drink the water of life freely.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. You, who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and shouted in a loud voice: If any man thirst let him come to me and drink.
([[Psalm of David] in the wilderness of Judah:]) O God, you are my God. At dawn I search for you. I thirst for you. My body longs for you in a dry, parched land where there is no water.
I stretch out my hands to you for I long for you, like a parched land.
Behold, the day is coming, said the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah. They will wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east. They will run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and will not find it. In that day the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
([Sons of Korah]) As the deer desires the water brooks, so I desire you, O God. I thirst for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God? read more.
I remember these things and I pour out my heart within me. I used to go along with the crowd and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
I remember these things and I pour out my heart within me. I used to go along with the crowd and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
But whoever drinks from the water that I give him will never thirst. The water that I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water! That way I will not thirst and not come here to draw.