Quotes About Longing

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

Then I said, ëHow I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!í I thought you would call Me ëFatherí and never turn away from following Me.

If only I had a travelerís lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.

You will never return to the land for which you long.”

so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”

He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.

At this, I said, ëI have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.í

Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.”

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.