My soul longs, indeed it faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
My soul languishes for your salvation; I hope in your word.
I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, tell him this: I am faint with love.
Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his dwelling!
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—
How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!