Bible Verses About Yearning

I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.