From Nave’s Topical Bible
Thirst
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 11Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mindPsalms 42:1–4Psalms 63:1Psalms 143:6Isaiah 55:1Amos 8:11–13Matthew 5:6John 4:14John 4:15John 7:37Revelation 21:6Revelation 22:17
- See Desire, Spiritual
- See Diligence
- See Hunger, Spiritual
- See Zeal
The passages, in Bible order (11)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 11 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Psalms 42:1–4
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
Commentary on Psalms 42:1–41 voice
As the hart panteth after the water brooks,.... Either through a natural thirst that creature is said to have; or through the heat of the summer season; and especially when hunted by dogs, it betakes itself to rivers of water, partly to make its escape, and partly to extinguish its thirst, and refresh itself.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 63:1
O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- Psalms 143:6
I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
Commentary on Psalms 143:62 voices
I stretched out my hands to you. Bound by the enemy, I can do nothing else except do penance, and lift up my hands to you. My soul is as earth without water to you. As earth without water thirsts and seeks the rain, so too my soul longs for and thirsts after you, its God.
Jerome· Homily 53, on Psalm 142Patristic
I stretch forth my hands unto thee,.... In prayer, as the Targum adds; for this is a prayer gesture, 1Ki 8:38; both hands were stretched forth, earnestly imploring help, and ready to receive and embrace every blessing bestowed with thankfulness; my soul thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 55:1
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
Commentary on Isaiah 55:12 voices
(Chapter 55, Verse 1) All you who are thirsty, come to the waters, and you who have no money, hurry and buy and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? LXX: You who are thirsty, go to the water, and you who have no money, go, buy and eat, and walk, and buy wine and fat without money and without price. Why do you spend money, and your labor not for satisfaction?
Jerome· Commentary on IsaiahPatristic
Ho - (הוי hôy). This word here is designed to call attention to the subject as one of importance. Every one that thirsteth - The word ‘thirst’ often indicates intense desire, and is thus applied to the sense of want which sinners often have, and to their anxious wishes for salvation. It is not improbable that the Savior had this passage in his eye when he pronounced the blessing on those who hunger and thirst after righteousness Mat 5:6. No needs are so keen, none so imperiously demand supply, as those of hunger and thirst.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Amos 8:11–13
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Commentary on Amos 8:11–131 voice
Not a famine for bread - He does not deny that there should be bodily famine too; but this, grievous as it is, would be less grievous than the famine of which he speaks, “the famine of the word of the Lord.” In distress we all go to God. Rib.: “They who now cast out and despise the prophets, when they shall see themselves besieged by the enemy, shall be tormented with a great hunger of hearing the word of the Lord from the mouths of the prophets, and shall find no one to lighten their distresses.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Commentary on Matthew 5:62 voices
(ubi sup.) As soon as I have wept for my sins, I begin to hunger and thirst after righteousness. He who is afflicted with any sore disease, hath no hunger.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst,.... Not after the riches, honours, and pleasures of this world, but after righteousness; by which is meant, not justice and equity, as persons oppressed and injured; nor a moral, legal righteousness, which the generality of the Jewish nation were eagerly pursuing; but the justifying righteousness of Christ, which is imputed by God the Father, and received by faith.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 4:15
The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Commentary on John 4:152 voices
Give me this water, that I thirst not neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Again does she both speak and imagine only ordinary things, and of the things that were said understands no whit; but she supposes that in being released from petty toils, will consist all the aim of our Saviour, and to thirsting no more does she bound the measure of the grace of God, not so much as in bare idea receiving things above the world.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2Patristic
The woman saith unto him, Sir,.... See Gill on Joh 4:11; give me this water, that I thirst not. The Syriac and Persic versions add, "again": neither come hither; the Ethiopic version adds here, "again"; to draw.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
Commentary on John 7:371 voice
In the last day, that great day of the feast,.... That is, of tabernacles, as appears from Joh 7:2, which was usually called חג, "the feast", in distinction from the passover and Pentecost (q); and the eighth day of it was called הרגל האחרון, "the last day of the feast" (r), as here: and it was a "great day", being, as is said in Lev 23:36, an holy convocation, a solemn assembly, in which no servile work was done, and in which an offering was made by fire unto the Lord.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Revelation 21:6
And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
Commentary on Revelation 21:62 voices
Let those who are hungry come, that being fed with heavenly food, they may lay aside their lasting hunger; let those who are athirst come, that they may with full mouth draw forth the water of salvation from an ever-flowing fountain.
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius· Commentary (church-history corpus)Patristic
And he said unto me, it is done,.... The end of all things is come; it is all over with the first heaven and earth; these are no more, and the new heaven and earth are finished: there seems to be an allusion to the old creation, he spake, and it was done, Psa 33:
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
Commentary on Revelation 22:171 voice
Since therefore we have such proofs, it is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich man [depositing his money] in a bank, lodged in her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the truth: so that every man, whosoever will, can draw from her the water of life. For she is the entrance to life; all others are thieves and robbers.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book IIIPatristic