Quotes About Longing

I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.

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

My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.

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

I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!

My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

There on the willows we hung our harps,

for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

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

Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.

Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.