...of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple." Psalm xlii. 1,2. " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God?" Psalm...

...unseemly thing in David, when he was driven from the tabernacle of God, to make that lamentation, "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God ; my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God ? My...

...complaints, and earnest prayers against death, we should join in David's wilderness lamentations. " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God : my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God?" (Psalm...

...distance from his God, he bemoaneth his soul, as David in his banishment from the tabernacle : " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God ? My tears...

...darkness, and alienation from God ! How often has it looked up, and panted after him, and said, " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God : my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God ? Whom...

...should increase; but their prayer was, " Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon me;" "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God ; " " Whom have I in heaven but Thee ? and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison...

...love. The warmth and fervour of devout affection is expressed in the strongest terms in scripture: "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, О God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God.* Because...

...blessed Jesus, and he alone knew what would satisfy it. The soul must long, as did praying David's: As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth...

...Redeemer, and my heart did burn with love to him, and longing after him. I said, with David, lV, xlii. ' As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God : when shall I come and appear before God?" • What is called personal covenanting, or solemn...

...for. He may cry out, when he is detained from worshipping God in the great congregation, " Like as the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : when shall I come to appear in the...