Then the prophet Gad came to David and said, "Don't stay here; go at once to the land of Judah." So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

David stayed in hiding in the hill country, in the wilderness near Ziph. Saul was always trying to find him, but God did not turn David over to him.

Jonathan went to him there and encouraged him with assurances of God's protection,

Find out exactly the places where he hides, and be sure to bring back a report to me right away. Then I will go with you, and if he is still in the region, I will hunt him down, even if I have to search the whole land of Judah."

Saul and his men set out to look for David, but he heard about it and went to a rocky hill in the wilderness of Maon and stayed there. When Saul heard about this, he went after David.

Some men from Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah and told him that David was hiding on Mount Hachilah at the edge of the Judean wilderness.

and camped by the road on Mount Hachilah. David was still in the wilderness, and when he learned that Saul had come to look for him,

Meanwhile, I will wait at the river crossings in the wilderness until I receive news from you."

But my trust is in you, O LORD; you are my God.

Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my savior and my God.

can say to him, "You are my defender and protector. You are my God; in you I trust."

You are my God, and I give you thanks; I will proclaim your greatness.

You are my God; teach me to do your will. Be good to me, and guide me on a safe path.

The LORD is my strong defender; he is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will sing about his greatness.

The LORD says, "The time is coming when I will be the God of all the tribes of Israel, and they will be my people.

The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

And I will test the third that survives and will purify them as silver is purified by fire. I will test them as gold is tested. Then they will pray to me, and I will answer them. I will tell them that they are my people, and they will confess that I am their God."

"Do not hold on to me," Jesus told her, "because I have not yet gone back up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am returning to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

you hear my voice in the morning; at sunrise I offer my prayer and wait for your answer.

Whenever he killed some of them, the rest would turn to him; they would repent and pray earnestly to him.

But turn now and plead with Almighty God;

when it comes on you like a storm, bringing fierce winds of trouble, and you are in pain and misery.

Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me.

I love those who love me; whoever looks for me can find me.

Asleep on my bed, night after night I dreamed of the one I love; I was looking for him, but couldn't find him.

The sentries patrolling the city saw me. I asked them, "Have you found my lover?"

"I will abandon my people until they have suffered enough for their sins and come looking for me. Perhaps in their suffering they will try to find me."

Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.

As a deer longs for a stream of cool water, so I long for you, O God.

I thirst for you, the living God. When can I go and worship in your presence?

How I want to be there! I long to be in the LORD's Temple. With my whole being I sing for joy to the living God.

I am worn out, LORD, waiting for you to save me; I place my trust in your word.

I lift up my hands to you in prayer; like dry ground my soul is thirsty for you.

On the last and most important day of the festival Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice, "Whoever is thirsty should come to me, and

Never again will they hunger or thirst; neither sun nor any scorching heat will burn them,

because the Lamb, who is in the center of the throne, will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of life-giving water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

My life is disappearing like smoke; my body is burning like fire.

I groan aloud; I am nothing but skin and bones.

Promise me, women of Jerusalem, that if you find my lover, you will tell him I am weak from passion.

But the people were very thirsty and continued to complain to Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt? To kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a place to hide from storms. They will be like streams flowing in a desert, like the shadow of a giant rock in a barren land.

the burning sand will become a lake, and dry land will be filled with springs. Where jackals used to live, marsh grass and reeds will grow.

I will make rivers flow among barren hills and springs of water run in the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water and the dry land into flowing springs.

"When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,