Bible on Desire

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.