Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 6

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6: μακαριοι οι πεινωντες και διψωντες την δικαιοσυνην οτι αυτοι χορτασθησονταιâ€” edit Textus Receptus
6: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.- edit KJV text
6: Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.â€” edit Douay text

Blessed are they that hunger, etc. Hunger and thirst, here, are expressive of strong desire. Nothing would better express the strong desire which we ought to feel to obtain righteousness, than hunger and thirst. No wants are so keen, none so imperiously demand supply as these. They occur daily; and when long continued, as in case of those shipwrecked, and doomed to wander months or years over burning sands, with scarcely any drink or food, nothing is more distressing. An ardent desire for anything is often represented in the Scriptures by hunger and thirst, Ps 42¹, Ps 42², Ps 63¹, Ps 63².

A desire for the blessings of pardon and peace; a deep sense of sin, and want, and wretchedness, is also represented by thirsting, Isa 55:1, Isa 55:2. Those that are perishing for want of righteousness; that feel that they are lost sinners, and strongly desire to be holy, shall be filled. Never was there a desire to be holy, which God was not willing to gratify. And the gospel of Christ has made provision to satisfy all who truly desire to be holy. See Isa 55:1ff, Isa 65:13, Jn 4:14, Jn 6:35, Jn 7:37, Jn 7:38, Ps 17¹⁵.