desireth

Proverbs 1:17-19
How futile to spread the net where any bird can see it. . . .

Proverbs 29:5, 6
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. . . .

Psalm 9:15
The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are snared in the net they have hidden.

Psalm 10:9
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his dragnet.

Jeremiah 5:26-28
For My people are among wicked men. They watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap; they catch men. . . .

Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with a net.

Habakkuk 1:15-17
The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook; they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; so they are glad and rejoice. . . .

net or fortress

Proverbs 10:15
The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

the root

Psalm 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Isaiah 27:6
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

Isaiah 37:31
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

Jeremiah 17:7, 8
But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is Him. . . .

Luke 8:13-15
The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away. . . .

John 15:5, 16
I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. . . .

Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.