My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and 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.
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
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 rules at all times.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
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