100 Bible Verses About Desire

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

And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth–shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.

Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

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

And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.

Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.

And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed out for my master’s son.

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.

While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose;

And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word.

All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

And the man departed out of the city from Beth–lehem–judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.

O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!