'Longing' in the Bible

Now, you can go if you must go, because you certainly are longing to go to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?"

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

David expressed his longing, "Oh, how I wish someone would get me a drink of water from the Bethlehem well that's by the city gate!"

David expressed a longing, "Oh, how I wish someone would get me a drink of water from the Bethlehem well that's by the city gate!"

To those who are longing for death even though it does not come? To those who search for it more than for hidden treasure?

“Oh that my request might come to pass,And that God would grant my longing!

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble and oppressed;You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear to hear,

O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

My eyes fail with longing for Your word,While I say, “When will You comfort me?”

My eyes fail with longing for Your salvationAnd for Your righteous word.

I am longing for your deliverance, LORD, and your instruction is my joy.

I stretch out my hands toward you, longing for you like a parched land. Interlude

What the wicked fears will come about, but the longing of the righteous will be granted.

Delayed hope makes the heart ill, but fulfilled longing is a tree of life.

Fulfilled longing is sweet to the soul, but avoiding evil is detestable to the fool.

For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

It is better to be content with what the eyes can see than for one's heart always to crave more. This continual longing is futile -- like chasing the wind.

It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating,then wakes and is still hungry;and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.So it will be for all the many nationswho go to battle against Mount Zion.

But Pharaoh's protection will become your shame, and sheltering in Egypt's shadow your longing.

Therefore the Lord waits [expectantly] and longs to be gracious to you,And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.For the Lord is a God of justice;Blessed (happy, fortunate) are all those who long for Him [since He will never fail them].

As for the land to which they are {longing} to return, they will not return.

Then the remnant of Judah—those going to live for a while there in the land of Egypt—will have no fugitive or survivor to return to the land of Judah where they are longing to return to live, for they will not return except for a few fugitives.”

“How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.

Say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and your soul's longing; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.

“‘Son of man, know that on the day I take their stronghold from them, their pride and joy, the delight of their eyes and the longing of their hearts, as well as their sons and daughters,

Alas, you who are longing for the day of the Lord,For what purpose will the day of the Lord be to you?It will be darkness and not light;

Then He said to them, “Watch out and guard yourselves against every form of greed; for not even when one has an overflowing abundance does his life consist of nor is it derived from his possessions.”

And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

For I am longing to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong,

and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.

For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

Brethren, the longing of my heart, and my prayer to God, on behalf of my countrymen is for their salvation.

and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years,

Indeed, we groan in this body, desiring to put on our dwelling from heaven,

and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he received from you. He told us about your deep longing, your sorrow, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;

*We* have not, for through the Spirit we wait with longing hope for an acceptance with God which is to come through faith.

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

We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Longing for you in this way, we determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you had become dear to us.

But since we were taken away from you, believers, for a little while—in person, but not in heart—we endeavored, with great longing to see you face to face.

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you,

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

recalling your tears and longing to see you so that I can be filled with joy.

Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

For we have no permanent city here, but we are longing for the city which is soon to be ours.