28 Bible Verses about Hope, Results Of Its Absence

If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness, [if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,' where then [is] my hope? And {who will see my hope}?

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

For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].

What [is] my strength, that I should wait? And what [is] my end, that {I should hold out}?

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.

I [am] afflicted and perishing from [my] youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught. Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me. They surround me like water all the day; they circle about me altogether.read more.
You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances [far from my] darkness.

And [the] workers of combed flax will be ashamed, and those who weave white linen.

For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the [province of] Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond [our] strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning? O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and [by] night but I have no rest.

And I have said, "My glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh."

And he said to me, "Son of man, these bones [are] all of the house of Israel; look! [they are] saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; {we are cut off as far as we are concerned}.'

Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

"Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul, who wait for death, but {it does not come}, and search [for] it more than [for] treasures,

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women like these, from the {native women}, {what am I living for}?"

If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."

When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,' then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me. So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh.

And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"

And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, "so will your descendants be."

But the men rowed [hard] to bring [the ship] back to the dry land, and they could not [do so] because the sea {was growing more and more tempestuous} against them. So they cried out to Yahweh, and they said, "O Yahweh! Please do not let us perish because of this man's life, and {do not make us guilty of innocent blood}, because you, O Yahweh, did what you wanted."

"So now then, say, please, to the {people} of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, {saying}, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I [am] preparing evil against you, and [I am] planning a plan against you. Please turn back, each one from his evil way, and walk rightly [in] your ways and your deeds." ' But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

But [when] neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and [with] not a little bad weather confronting [us], finally all hope was abandoned [that] we would be saved.

And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away [and] hanged himself.

Then Saul said to {his armor bearer}, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised do not come and thrust me through and make a fool of me!" But {his armor bearer} [was] not willing [to do so] because he [was] very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

When Ahithophel saw that his advice [was] not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order}, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.

It happened that when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went to the citadel fortress of the house of the king, and he burnt the house of the king over him with fire so that he died.