My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight.
Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!
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