Lexicon :: Strong's H183 - 'āvâ

The [fn]rabble among them [who followed Israel from Egypt] had greedy desires [for familiar and delicious food], and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

‘You shall not covet [that is, desire and seek to acquire] your neighbor’s wife, nor desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

“When the LORD your God extends your territory, as He promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you want to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever [fn]you wish.

“But He is unique and unchangeable, and who can turn Him?

And what His soul desires, that He does.

Then the King will desire your beauty;

Because He is your Lord, bow down and honor Him.

But lusted intensely in the wilderness

And tempted God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.

For the LORD has chosen Zion;

He has desired it for His dwelling place:

The soul (appetite) of the lazy person craves and gets nothing [for lethargy overcomes ambition],

But the soul (appetite) of the diligent [who works willingly] is rich and abundantly supplied.

The soul of the wicked desires evil [like an addictive substance];

His neighbor finds no compassion in his eyes.

He craves all the day long [and does no work],

But the righteous [willingly] gives and does not withhold [what he has].

Do not desire his delicacies,

For it is deceptive food [offered to you with questionable motives].

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,

Or desire his delicacies;

Do not be envious of evil men,

Nor desire to be with them;

In the night my soul longs for You [O LORD],

Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;

For [only] when Your judgments are experienced on the earth

Will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

But as for me, I have not tried to escape from being a shepherd [walking] after You,

Nor have I longed for the woeful day [of judgment];

You know that, whatever I said

Was [spoken] in Your presence and was from You.

Woe (judgment is coming) to you who desire the day of the LORD [expecting rescue from the Gentiles]!

Why would you want the day of the LORD?

It is darkness (judgment) and not light [and rescue and prosperity];

Woe is me (judgment is coming)! For I am

Like one who gathers the summer fruits, like one who gleans the vintage grapes.

There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,

No first-ripe fig which my appetite craves.