Behold, I have desired Your commandments; revive me in Your righteousness.

I opened my mouth, and drew breath; for I earnestly longed after Your commandments.

I have longed after Your salvation, O Lord; and Your law is my meditation.

For the end, [A Psalm] of instruction, for the sons of Korah. As the deer earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for You, O God.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Edom. O God, my God, I cry to You early; my soul has thirsted for You: how often has my flesh [longed] after You, in a barren and trackless and dry land!

My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh have exalted in the living God.

Better is he that begins to help heartily, than he that promises and leads [another] to hope; for a good desire is a tree of life.

I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you should find my kinsman, what are you to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

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

Therefore, since you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth.

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times.

And I will go forth according to His commandments, for I have kept His ways; and I shall not turn aside from His commandments,

neither shall I transgress; but I have hid His words in my bosom.

has he any confidence before Him? Or will [God] hear him as he calls upon Him?

A friend loves at all times, and let brothers be useful in distress, for on this account are they born.