Deuteronomy 12:20

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

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;

Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

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

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth Hattaavah.

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

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.

and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,

Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.

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?’ ”

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

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

He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

“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 I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise.” Surely he has done great things.

The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,

From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

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.

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

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

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

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

I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

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.

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

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

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.

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

I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?” ’ ”

The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

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.

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

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

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

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

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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