Thematic Bible: Select readings, psalms 42; 84 ps 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.


When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.

Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.



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 long for Your salvation, O Lord,
And Your law is my delight.


“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.