'Desire' in the Bible

You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.

Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.

Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.

The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

The Lord is my great helper: I will see my desire against my haters.

My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.

Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

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.

My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

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

O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)

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

She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.

Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.

The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.

A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.

To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.

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.

Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

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 hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

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

And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.

Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

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

Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

Have no envy for evil men, or any 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.

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.

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.

All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

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

I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

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

My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.

In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of 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.

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.

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.

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

And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

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.

An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.

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,

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.

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.

And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.

And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.

And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire.

For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.

And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.

She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.

And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.

And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.

Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.

And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters.

They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.