'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?"

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?

My soul is consumed with longing for your decrees at all times.

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.

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