'Desire' in the Bible

The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.

Give me a desire for your rules, rather than for wealth gained unjustly.

See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.

I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.

My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

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

All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, because I desire to do so.

Grant not, O Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah.

“Those who surround me raise their heads;May the mischief of their own lips come upon them.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

because wisdom is better than precious gems and nothing you desire can compare to it."

Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

The righteousness of the upright will rescue them,But the treacherous will be caught by their own greed.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

The wicked desire what evil men have,but the root of the righteous produces fruit.

From the fruit of a man’s mouth he enjoys good,But the desire of the treacherous is violence.

The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.

A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge,And he who hurries with his feet [acting impulsively and proceeding without caution or analyzing the consequences] sins (misses the mark).

Discipline your son while there is hope,And do not desire his death.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

Streams of water [are] the heart of a king in the hand of Yahweh; {wherever} he will desire, he will turn.

By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

For you will put a knife to your throatIf you are a man of great appetite.

don’t desire his choice food,for that food is deceptive.

Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

It is not for kings, Lemuel,it is not for kings to drink wineor for rulers to desire beer.

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

Whenever I wanted something I had seen, I never refused that desire. Instead, I enjoyed everything I did, and this became the reward in what I had undertaken.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God has not given him the power or capacity to enjoy them [all those things which are gifts from God], but a stranger [in whom he has no interest succeeds him and] enjoys them. This is vanity and it is a [cause of] great distress.

All the labor of man is for his mouth [for self-preservation and enjoyment], and yet the desire [of his soul] is not satisfied.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Because the sentence against a criminal act is not carried out quickly, the heart of people is filled with the desire to commit crime.

Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

(The Chorus)“Catch the foxes for us,The little foxes that spoil and ruin the vineyards [of love],While our vineyards are in blossom.”

The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

Before I knew it,my desire put meamong the chariots of my noble people.

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

“What are all your sacrifices to Me?”asks the Lord.“I have had enough of burnt offerings and ramsand the fat of well-fed cattle;I have no desire for the blood of bulls,lambs, or male goats.

For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

and against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the ships of desire.

In that day is the Shoot of Jehovah for desire and for honour, And the fruit of the earth For excellence and for beauty to the escaped of Israel.

Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend into it, and her multitude, and her tumult, and all that is joyful within her.

Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,who cannot be bought off with silverand who have no desire for gold.

Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,

From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, 'Leanness is to me, Leanness is to me, woe is to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

I desire you [with all] my soul in the night; also I seek you [with] my spirit within me, for when your judgments [are] {upon} the earth, [the] inhabitants of [the] world learn righteousness.

And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

“It is I who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd!And he will perform all My desire.’And he declares of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built,’And of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”

who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says, 'My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,'

All of you, gather together and listen! Who among them announced these things? The Lord's ally will carry out his desire against Babylon; he will exert his power against the Babylonians.

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

Lo, he doth diligently assemble without My desire, Who hath assembled near thee? By thee he falleth!

so will my message be that goes out of my mouth it won't return to me empty. Instead, it will accomplish what I desire, and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

And the dogs are strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they are shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:

You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

You grew tired with your many wanderings, but you wouldn't say: "It is hopeless.' You found new strength for your desire, and so you did not falter.

Seeing -- Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire:

‘Why have we fasted and You do not see?Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’Behold, on the day of your fast you find your desire,And drive hard all your workers.

And if you give yourself to the hungryAnd satisfy the desire of the afflicted,Then your light will rise in darknessAnd your gloom will become like midday.

“And the Lord will continually guide you,And satisfy your desire in scorched places,And give strength to your bones;And you will be like a watered garden,And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

He sees there is no advocate; he is shocked that no one intervenes. So he takes matters into his own hands; his desire for justice drives him on.

He wears his desire for justice like body armor, and his desire to deliver is like a helmet on his head. He puts on the garments of vengeance and wears zeal like a robe.

Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.