'Desire' in the Bible
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
"Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.
If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand."
Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he doesn't make it grow.
Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household."
So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"
King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest all around.
"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.
Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
May He grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your counsel.
You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.
They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Don't be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends
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?
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.
so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.
"Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies.