Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... of the kind of praise he offers, he praises God’s incomparable righteousness in hymnic terms. 71:20–21 Verse 20 contains a confession of trust that is one of the most poignant of the Psalms: Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again. There is no presumption here that Yahweh promises a life free from pain, but there is equally the certainty and hope of Yahweh’s life-restoring intervention. This is not mere faith, but tested faith. (We are privileged here ...
1627. The Lord's Supper
Matthew 26:17-30
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... pointed to that crucial moment when the kingdom of God was to be established by the sacrifice of the Son. The disciples did as they were instructed and prepared the Passover meal. In addition to the lamb, it would be necessary to secure saltwater, bitter herbs, harosheth (a broth of mashed nuts and fruit), and wine. When evening came Jesus was reclining (anekeito, imperfect) with his disciples at table. In earlier days the Passover was eaten standing up (cf. Exod. 12:11), but by New Testament times it was ...
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... at Peter” (Luke 22:61). Apparently this happened just as Jesus was being led down from the chambers where he had been declared guilty and humiliated by the Sanhedrin. Peter leaves the courtyard with an unbearable heaviness of heart. Going out, he wept bitterly. His remorse was unlike that of Judas, who went out and hanged himself (Matt. 27:5). Paul speaks of a “godly sorrow” that “leads to salvation and leaves no regret” as contrasted with a “worldly sorrow [that] brings death” (2 Cor. 7:10 ...
1629. The Crucifixion
Matthew 27:32-44
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... wine was mingled with “myrrh,” a delicacy that would make the wine more palatable and also dull the pain (cf. Prov. 31:6–7). If those who gave Jesus the wine were soldiers, then the myrrhed wine (supplied by the women?) was made bitter (another cruel joke?) by the “gall” (v. 34, RSV) added by the executioners. 27:35–44 Many have commented on Matthew’s “remarkable restraint” in speaking of the crucifixion. In the Greek text the clause translated they … crucified him is simply an aorist ...
Understanding Series
William Nelson
... cases they seem not to have suffered. Just as no harm comes to the three youths from the fire (3:27), so no wound is found on Daniel from the lions (6:23). However, Job truly suffered, although God later rescued him from pain by healing him. Jeremiah complained bitterly about his sufferings (Jer. 20:7–8; see also Jer. 1:8). In the NT, God sometimes delivered his people from prison (Acts 4:18–20; 5:19–20; 12:1–10; 16:19–26), but other times they endured persecution (Acts 5:40–41; 2 Cor. 11:23 ...
Understanding Series
William Nelson
... put Laodice aside and married Berenice, the new couple produced a son. Unfortunately, Berenice did not retain her power (11:6). When her father died, Antiochus broke faith with her and ignored his treaty by reuniting with Laodice. Whether in bitterness for being divorced earlier or in fear of being divorced again should Antiochus change his mind once more, Laodice murdered Antiochus with poison. She also arranged the deaths of Berenice, her baby boy, and their Egyptian attendants. Berenice was handed ...
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Larry W. Hurtado
... the sort of horrible fate that Jesus describes in 8:31. Thus Peter’s response in 8:32 is in one sense fully understandable. All definitions of the nature and function of Messiah must be subsumed to the reality that God’s Christ, Jesus, was obedient, undergoing bitter suffering and death in accordance with the plan of God. To ignore or downplay this is to be on the side of erroneous human thought and against God’s will. Indeed, it is to be under the sway of Satan, without even knowing it (8:33). Mark ...
Understanding Series
Larry W. Hurtado
... implication to Jesus’ reply that accounts for the amazement of the listeners in verse 17. As a word directed to Mark’s first readers, the passage must be seen from two standpoints. First, in the context, the passage is another example of the bitter opposition that Jesus aroused within the Jewish “establishment,” and the collusion of the Pharisees and the Herodians (normally at odds with each other on many matters) emphasizes this. It should be noted that in 11:27–33 a group led by the high ...
1634. Absalom Kills Amnon
2 Samuel 13:23-39
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... disciplinary action against members of his family impossible. But the effect was that David too treated Tamar’s desolation, which Absalom was forced to observe every day, as unimportant. David’s lack of action increased Absalom’s desire for revenge. The bitterness in Absalom was just as strong after two years. He shared his father’s ability to create loyalty in his followers but not the nature that could leave the past behind and be passionately involved only in the present. Absalom’s revenge ...
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... , life under the new conditions must have been intensely irritating and frustrating. It is likely that he resented his father for what he saw as unjust treatment, particularly because Amnon had not been punished. For two years, parallel to the two years when his bitterness against Amnon festered (13:22–23), Absalom endured this life, never seeing the king’s face, but he felt that two years was long enough. 14:29–33 Once Absalom was back in Israel, Joab kept out of the way, perhaps surprised at how ...
Understanding Series
Mary J. Evans
... well as the “again” from verse 1 indicates a deliberate link between 21:1–14 and 24:1–25. The reader is intended to think about the links between Saul’s action with its consequences and David’s action with its consequences. Saul’s tortured bitterness had prevented God from working out his purposes through him, but David’s repentant trust provided a context in which God could answer prayer. The final mention of David in this book is his fair treatment of Araunah and his desire to pay whatever ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... ? they ask Jesus (v. 25), and they are told that all along from the very beginning of his ministry he has been making himself known, if only they would listen (v. 25). There is much he could say now in condemnation, but Jesus refuses to be drawn into bitter argument (v. 26). His intention is rather to deliver the message the Father has given him (vv. 26, 28b). Insofar as this revelation is a self-revelation, it centers on the strange phrase, I am the one I claim to be (vv. 24, 28). Literally, the phrase in ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... a woman in labor to dramatize the point that the disciples’ sadness will later give way to joy (v. 21). The reversal implied by this imagery seems at first to demand that at the moment when the disciples’ sadness turns to joy, the world’s joy turns bitter. The metaphor of birth pangs (cf. 1 Thess. 5:3), as well as such distinctly eschatological terms as that day (vv. 23, 26) and the word used for anguish (or “suffering”; Gr.: thlipsis, v. 21), suggest a revelation that is visible both to the world ...
1639. Jesus Sentenced to be Crucified
John 19:1-16, John 18:28-40
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... and Here is the man! in verse 5 could suggest that he is merely resuming the mockery of verses 1–5 and bringing to an end his grotesque mock coronation. But something has changed. There is a seriousness in Pilate’s behavior and a bitter solemnity here that was not present before. Realizing that the Jewish authorities have forced him to accede to their demands, Pilate takes his revenge. By sitting in the judge’s seat, he gives to the announcement Here is your king a ceremonial and quasi-official ...
1640. Boasting
2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 1:1-11, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... Their boasting provoked Paul to engage in similar boasting, even though he recognized it to be utterly foolish. He had already resorted to self-commendation earlier in the letter (cf. 1:12–14; 6:3–10). Now, however, in this extended and, in part bitterly ironic “Fool’s Speech” (11:21b–12:13), Paul boasts in an attempt both to counter the accusations of his opponents and to expose the false apostles as frauds who pervert the gospel and lead the Corinthians astray. To a certain degree, the apostle ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... believers will inherit in the next life (v. 9) is not to exclude a foretaste for Christians in the here and now. The psalmist’s words spell out the practical conditions involved. The heirs of blessing must keep the tongue from evil, avoid malicious and bitter words that disparage another person and are calculated to hurt. They are to keep their lips from deceitful speech: not to tell lies or be economical with the truth, for lies are calculated to deceive (2:1, 22). The tongue, for all its smallness in ...
1642. Jacob Flees to Laban
Genesis 27:41--28:9
Understanding Series
John E. Hartley
... is that they deserve the pain they get for their conniving. The sympathies of the audience gravitate toward Isaac, a weak, aging figure whose fatherly desire to honor a loved son is thwarted. The outcomes of this act of deception are harsh. Esau weeps bitterly for the lost blessing. Jacob has to spend twenty years in exile, where he must deal with a clever father-in-law. Rebekah loses the companionship of her favorite son and never sees him again. Little is known of Isaac’s sorrow. Nevertheless, through ...
Understanding Series
John E. Hartley
... this time Asenath bore Joseph two sons. The firstborn he named Manasseh, . . . because God had made him forget all his trouble and all his father’s household. It is not that Joseph no longer remembered his family or the hard times but that the bitterness of that memory had been eased. His second son he named Ephraim, . . . because God had made him fruitful in the land of his suffering. The meanings of these names illustrate Joseph’s attitude toward the hard years he had endured and foreshadow the way ...
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... Stiff-necked” had become Moses’ favorite term for them, echoing God’s own opinion (Exod. 32:9; 33:3; 34:9; Deut. 9:6). But this time there is something of a climax. Of all their rebellions this was surely the most serious and the most costly. The bitterness of their disobedience is expressed in their words, in which they accuse God of quite absurd motives in what he had done for them. The LORD hates us . . . (v. 27). The very events that had been the greatest proof of God’s love for them and of God ...
1645. The Song of Moses
Deuteronomy 31:30--32:47
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... answer follows directly. 32:19–25 God, the rejected parent, declares the rejection of such perverse offspring. There is anger in verses 19f., but also pain. The God who sees (v. 19) cannot bear to see and so hides God’s face (v. 20). The pain turns to bitter irony in the sarcastic wordplay of verse 21: “They have made me jealous by a no-god (lōʾ-ʾēl); I will make them jealous by a no-people (lōʾ-ʿām).” Israel would suffer at the hands of a nation as worthless in their eyes as their gods were ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... to put on people’s lips the implications of their words (see 28:15). This scorn involves denying the reality of the crisis that confronts the community, saying things are going well when they are on the way to disaster (v. 20). Even in English, bitter/sweet sounds like a reference to suffering/blessing rather than to wrong/right. In Hebrew this is also the natural way to understand evil/good and darkness/light (cf. v. 30). This delusion in turn involves living by their own definitions of insight (v. 21 ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... that she wanted to interview for a job. But as soon as she entered his office, Maria made her intent clear. She was the secretary to the Communist Party in Ecuador. She denounced everything having to do with God or with Jesus Christ. Her bitterness overwhelmed him. But Palau listened respectfully and replied gently to everything Maria said. Soon, as Palau listened patiently with much love and concern, Maria began telling him her life story. It was a tale of pain and suffering and sin. And she ended it ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... sitting Vice President of the United States. And yet at Weehawken, New Jersey on July 11, 1804 these two men fought a duel. You think politics are bad today. Politics today are a cakewalk in comparison. The duel was the culmination of a long and bitter rivalry between the two men. Tensions reached a boiling point when Hamilton defamed Burr’s character in a New York political campaign. In the duel Burr shot and mortally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Burr survived the duel but the harsh criticism ...
1649. Faces of Failure: Peter
Matthew 26 (selections)
Sermon
Don Tuttle
... , but that Matthew couldn’t bring himself to say that when he wrote his Gospel. Whatever the case, Peter soon hears the cock crow and knows he has failed. He has failed to keep his promise to never deny Jesus. And so he goes out and weeps bitterly. I’m sure fear plays a part in Peter’s failure. Seeing Jesus arrested, he has reason to be anxious. But fear is only part of the problem. The real issue is Peter’s arrogance. When Peter sits across from Jesus and promises to remain faithful, he assumes ...
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King Duncan
... of the kingdom of God, it will show by the way you love. That’s not new to you, but I’m amazed how many people have missed this truth which is the very heart of the gospel. You cannot hold on to resentment, anger, prejudice, and bitterness, and claim citizenship in Christ’s kingdom. The kingdom is centered in love. We would all be so much healthier and happier if we accepted that principle. Love heals hurts the eye cannot see. Alice Gray in her book Stories for the Heart tells a story from missionary ...
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