The Hart
14 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
13 sections
- (Panting for Water) Afflicted Saints Longing for God
- (Sure-Footedness of) Experienced Saints
- (Without Pasture) the Persecuted
- Clean and Used As Food
- Female of Brings Forth at Appointed Time
- Female of Brings Forth at the Voice of God
- Female of Brings Forth with Difficulty
- Female of Called the Hind
- Female of Delights in Freedom
- Female of Forsakes Her Young in Famine
- Female of Kind and Affectionate
- Often Hunted
- Young of, Abundantly Provided For
(Panting for Water) Afflicted Saints Longing for God
- Psalm 42:1–2 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. …
(Sure-Footedness of) Experienced Saints
- Psalm 18:33 He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
- Habakkuk 3:19 GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights!
(Without Pasture) the Persecuted
- Lamentations 1:6 All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.
Clean and Used As Food
- Deuteronomy 12:15 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
- Deuteronomy 14:5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
Female of Brings Forth at Appointed Time
- Job 39:1–2 “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn? …
Female of Brings Forth at the Voice of God
- Psalm 29:9 The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
Female of Brings Forth with Difficulty
- Job 39:3 They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
Female of Called the Hind
- Song of Solomon 2:7 O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
Female of Delights in Freedom
- Genesis 49:21 Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
Female of Forsakes Her Young in Famine
- Jeremiah 14:5 Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Female of Kind and Affectionate
- Proverbs 5:19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
Often Hunted
- Lamentations 1:6 All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.
Young of, Abundantly Provided For
- Job 39:4 Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
Related topics
The Hart of ChristThe Hart of Converted SinnersDeerThe Roe
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.