Bible Verses About The Affections

`And thou hast heard, O Israel, and observed to do, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest multiply exceedingly, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee, in the land flowing with milk and honey.

`And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have--a peculiar treasure of gold and silver--I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:

For the holy ones who are in the land, And the honourable, all my delight is in them.

The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,

The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous--together.

They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.

One thing I asked of Jehovah--it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

To the Overseer. --An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.

For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me.

Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

To the Overseer. --`On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' --A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts!

My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,

Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him--I set him on high, Because he hath known My name.

And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

They have hasted--forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.

Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.

How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.

Cut me off hath my zeal, For mine adversaries forgot Thy words.

Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly.

Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;

Seeing--Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire:

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee--My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.