Hope

Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, and they quickly grasped at this word and replied, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” “Go and get him!” said the king. Then Ben-hadad came out, and Ahab had him come up into his chariot.

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:

What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

…as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

…where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

…where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.

A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion

May Your loving devotion rest on us, O LORD, as we put our hope in You.

For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.

Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.

May those who hope in You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of Hosts; may those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel.

For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.

Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.

Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.

You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.

Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.

I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.

I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.

When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.

When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.

The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.

You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

In His name the nations will put their hope.”

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,

When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.

Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

…and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

…the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.

So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

…through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

…perseverance, character; and character, hope.

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?