2 Samuel 13:39

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

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

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.

He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’ ”

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also called Chesalon) on the north, and went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;

The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

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.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.

Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.

The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

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

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

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

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

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

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

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

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

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,