There are many who say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift up the light of Your countenance upon us.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than during the time when their grain and their wine increased.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Maschil. For the sons of Korah.] i0 par As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living Mighty God; when shall I come and appear before God?

i1 [A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] i0 par O God, You are my Mighty God. I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

Yea, in the way of Your judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for You; for the desire of our soul is Your name and the remembrance of You.

With my soul I have desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?

For I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

And he distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and the men, to everyone a cake of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins. And all the people departed, everyone to his house.

And Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman loved by a companion, yet an adulteress, like the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods and love raisin cakes of grapes.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem: If you find my beloved, that you tell him I am lovesick!

After this Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

Amnon was so distressed over his sister Tamar that he became sick; for she was a virgin; and it was difficult in Amnon's eyes to do anything to her.

The entrance of Your Words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

I opened my mouth and panted, for I longed for Your Commandments.