²⁰ My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

² My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹ > God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, My flesh longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for your commandments.

⁴⁰ Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

¹ > As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants after you, God.

² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

¹⁵ "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.

⁸ I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

¹² Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

³ Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

¹¹ My foot has held fast to his steps. His way have I kept, and not turned aside.

¹² I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call on God at all times?