Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess him, says Yahweh.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

But now faith, hope, and love remain -- these three. The greatest of these is love.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;