Psalms 119:20
Hebrew Text— Psalms 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
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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:
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
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.
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
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;
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
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.
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
“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.
“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,
‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
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.’
Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
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.
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
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.
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.
Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.
My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.
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.
For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
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!
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
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.
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.
The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
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.
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
“ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
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.
King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
Hamor talked with them, saying, “The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?