8 Bible Verses about Hope, Of The Wicked

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

and they have been affrighted and ashamed of Cush their confidence, and of Egypt their beauty, and the inhabitant of this isle hath said in that day -- Lo, thus is our trust, Whither we have fled for help, To be delivered from the king of Asshur, And how do we escape -- we?'

See doth Ashkelon and fear, Also Gaza, and she is exceedingly pained, Also Ekron -- for her expectation dried up, And perished hath a king from Gaza, And Ashkelon doth not remain,

So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

The hope of the righteous is joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;