18 occurrences in 13 translations

'Desire' in the Bible

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness.She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.Who can control her passion?All who look for her will not become tired;they will find her in her mating season.

Verse ConceptsHeatNosesSeeking For Concrete ThingsDo Not Grow WearyPassiontired

Then I thought, 'How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of [the] glory of [the] hosts of nations.' And I thought, 'You would call me, "My father," and you would not turn back from {behind} me.'

Verse ConceptsGod, Fatherhood OfPeople Of God, In OtRejection Of God, Results OfSpiritual AdoptionIsrael As Sons Of GodFollowing Godfatherhood

Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands fordrawing near to GodHealingRevival, CorporateReturning To GodGod HealsYou Are Our GodBackslidingBackslidersGod's Healing LoveFalling Away From God

And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

Verse ConceptsNeighing And BrayingTransferring Wives

If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things," says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfBoasting, LegitimateDelight, God ExpressingGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Righteousness OfGod, Will OfHappinessHeart, DivineJustification, Necessity OfKindnessPleasureUnderstandingGod Doing RightDoing RightI Am The LordExerciseBoasting

I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

Verse ConceptsLewdnessSpiritual HarlotryHillsPeople Being UncleanBefore People ActNeighing And BrayingWoe To Israel And Jerusalem

Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodRejection Of God, Results OfReprobates

But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

Verse ConceptsNo return from exile

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. And roll about in mourning [in the dust], O leaders of the flock. For your days of slaughter and your dispersions have arrived, and you will fall like a vessel of desire.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

But then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves whom you had set free according to their desire, and you forced them to become male and female slaves."'

Verse ConceptsIrreverencePeople Changing Their MindsMaking Slaves

But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableFamine Killing

So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesRemnantNo Survivors

And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.

Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofSearchingSelfishnessSeeking For Abstract ThingsGreat ThingsGod Will Bring HarmBeing Yourself

But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDSatisfactionGod Executes VengeanceAll Things Belong To God

And I will bring Israel back to his pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his desire will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.

Verse ConceptsAppetite, PhysicalPhysical HungerSatisfactionPromise of return

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