Quotes about Longing
“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
- Job 29:2
Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
- Job 36:20
My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?
- Psalm 6:3
One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
- Psalm 27:4
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
- Psalm 42:1
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
- Psalm 42:2
I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
- Psalm 55:6
They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
- Psalm 59:15
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 body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- Psalm 63:1
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalm 84:2
They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.
- Psalm 107:5
My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
- Psalm 119:20