Quotes about Yearning
I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
- Song of Solomon 3:2
My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.
- Song of Solomon 5:4
I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
- Song of Solomon 5:6
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
- Song of Solomon 5:8
Come back, come back, O Shulammite! Come back, come back, that we may gaze upon you. Why do you look at the Shulammite, as on the dance of Mahanaim?
- Song of Solomon 6:13
O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
- Song of Solomon 8:1
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
- Isaiah 24:11
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
- Isaiah 59:11
Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
- Isaiah 63:15
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
- Isaiah 64:1
At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
- Ezekiel 23:16
They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
- Hosea 5:6