Quotes About Desire

Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.

How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.

I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire compares with her.

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.

I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.