'Eager' in the Bible

So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.

“His harvest the hungry devourAnd take it to a place of thorns,And the schemer is eager for their wealth.

They are like a lion eager to tear,like a young lion lurking in ambush.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

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

Those who are eager to do wrong draw near; they are far from your law.

for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

a heart that plots wicked schemes,feet eager to run to evil,

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

She seeks out wool and flax, working with eager hands.

For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?

Do not be eager in your heart to be angry,For anger resides in the bosom of fools.

“Oh, that you were like a brother to me,Who nursed at the breasts of my mother.If I found you out of doors, I would kiss you;No one would blame me or despise me, either.

Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—all the rulers of the earth.He makes all the kings of the nationsrise from their thrones.

They seek me day after day, and are eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practices righteousness and has not forsaken the justice of their God. "They ask me to reveal just decisions; they are eager to draw near to God.

They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see;Where have you not been violated?You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods]Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert,And you have desecrated the landWith your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).

They are well-fed, eager stallions,each neighing after someone else’s wife.

You say, "When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We're eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!

We're eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!"

I have said, "If only you would fear me, if only you would take my instructions to heart.' Then their houses would not have been torn down. I have chastened them, but they were eager to corrupt everything they were doing."

You look for much [harvest], but it comes to little; and even when you bring that home, I blow it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house, which lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house [eager to enjoy it].

Then the gray horses went out. They were eager to go out on patrol throughout the earth, so the angel said, "Go patrol the earth." So they went out on patrol throughout the earth.