My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments at all times.
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that does righteousness at all times.
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments.
I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.
Behold, I have longed after your precepts: revive me in your righteousness.
[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick with love.