When you see the tassels, you will remember and obey all the commands of the Lord instead of following your own desires and defiling yourselves, as you are prone to do.

“Those who hear the warnings of this curse should not congratulate themselves, thinking, ‘I am safe, even though I am following the desires of my own stubborn heart.’ This would lead to utter ruin!

Then Abner said to David, “Let me go and call an assembly of all Israel to support my lord the king. They will make a covenant with you to make you their king, and you will rule over everything your heart desires.” So David sent Abner safely on his way.

And I will place you on the throne of Israel, and you will rule over all that your heart desires.

Praise the Lord your God, who delights in you and has placed you on the throne as king to rule for him. Because God loves Israel and desires this kingdom to last forever, he has made you king over them so you can rule with justice and righteousness.”

My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.

For they brag about their evil desires; they praise the greedy and curse the Lord.

May he grant your heart’s desires and make all your plans succeed.

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires.

So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.

In the wilderness their desires ran wild, testing God’s patience in that dry wasteland.

He grants the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cries for help and rescues them.

Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin, for their hands refuse to work.

Before I realized it, my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man.

“Keep the Sabbath day holy. Don’t pursue your own interests on that day, but enjoy the Sabbath and speak of it with delight as the Lord’s holy day. Honor the Sabbath in everything you do on that day, and don’t follow your own desires or talk idly.

In that day Jerusalem will be known as ‘The Throne of the Lord.’ All nations will come there to honor the Lord. They will no longer stubbornly follow their own evil desires.

“But my people would not listen to me. They kept doing whatever they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts. They went backward instead of forward.

Instead, they have stubbornly followed their own desires and worshiped the images of Baal, as their ancestors taught them.

but your ancestors did not listen or even pay attention. Instead, they stubbornly followed their own evil desires. And because they refused to obey, I brought upon them all the curses described in this covenant.’”

These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other gods. Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing!

And you are even worse than your ancestors! You stubbornly follow your own evil desires and refuse to listen to me.

But the people replied, “Don’t waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires.”

They keep saying to those who despise my word, ‘Don’t worry! The Lord says you will have peace!’ And to those who stubbornly follow their own desires, they say, ‘No harm will come your way!’

The merchandise you traded satisfied the desires of many nations. Kings at the ends of the earth were enriched by your trade.

He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.