I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
But to the land on which their soul's desire is fixed, they will never come back.
An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,
And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.
And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.
But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.
And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.
At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.
How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?
My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.
Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
They came to Philip, who was of Beth-saida in Galilee, and made a request, saying, Sir, we have a desire to see Jesus.
The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple.
Jesus saw that they had a desire to put the question to him, so he said to them, Is this what you are questioning one with another, why I said, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me?
Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.
But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?
Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.
Truly I say to you, When you were young, you made yourself ready and went wherever you had a desire to go: but when you are old, you will put out your hands and another will make you ready, and you will be taken where you have no desire to go.
Jesus said to him, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you? come yourself after me.
So this saying went about among the brothers that this disciple would not undergo death: Jesus, however, did not say that he would not undergo death, but, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you?
For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?
Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?
The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?
Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.
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