My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.
And they wait as `for' rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide `As' for the latter rain.
As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,
I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.
I have longed for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy law `is' my delight.
Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.
Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,
To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.
I `am' Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,