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


Thematic Bible





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



In the night my soul longs for You [O Lord],
Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;
For [only] when Your judgments are experienced on the earth
Will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.


Blessed [joyful, nourished by God’s goodness] are you who hunger now [for righteousness, actively seeking right standing with God], for you will be [completely] satisfied. Blessed [forgiven, refreshed by God’s grace] are you who weep now [over your sins and repent], for you will laugh [when the burden of sin is lifted].

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

O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You;
My soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.



I opened my mouth and panted [with anticipation],
Because I longed for Your commandments.


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

And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He began to be grieved and greatly distressed.

Try your best to come [to me] before winter. Eubulus wishes to be remembered to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers and sisters.

For he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.



O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You;
My soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.


My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God.
When will I come and see the face of God?


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


I reach out my hands to You;
My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.


“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“When I will send hunger over the land,
Not hunger for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather [a hunger] for hearing the words of the Lord.