Quotes about Desire
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
— Isaiah 57:5
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
— Jeremiah 2:24
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
— Jeremiah 2:25
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
— Jeremiah 5:8
You will never return to the land for which you long.”
— Jeremiah 22:27
Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.
— Ezekiel 16:27
Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.
— Ezekiel 16:28
So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!
— Ezekiel 16:29
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
— Ezekiel 23:5
She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
— Ezekiel 23:7
Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
— Ezekiel 23:9
At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
— Ezekiel 23:16