He divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore it was named Galeed,

Laban said to Jacob, “Behold this heap and behold the pillar which I have set between you and me.

This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,
The flowing waters stood up like a heap;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

‘I will heap misfortunes on them;
I will use My arrows on them.

It shall come about when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, and the waters which are flowing down from above will stand in one heap.”

the waters which were flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.

They raised over him a great heap of stones that stands to this day, and the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the valley of Achor to this day.

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day.

He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave command and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.

Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,

When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.

“He raises the poor from the dust,
He lifts the needy from the ash heap
To make them sit with nobles,
And inherit a seat of honor;
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
And He set the world on them.

They took Absalom and cast him into a deep pit in the forest and erected over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

the thirteenth for Huppah, the fourteenth for Jeshebeab,

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was called by their name.

And I issued a decree that any man who violates this edict, a timber shall be drawn from his house and he shall be impaled on it and his house shall be made a refuse heap on account of this.

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai, the Gileadite, and was named after them.

“Is not your fear of God your confidence,
And the integrity of your ways your hope?

“So the helpless has hope,
And unrighteousness must shut its mouth.

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And come to an end without hope.

“So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the godless will perish,

“Then you would trust, because there is hope;
And you would look around and rest securely.

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”

“Though He slay me,
I will hope in Him.
Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

“For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not fail.

Water wears away stones,
Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth;
So You destroy man’s hope.

Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?

For the needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who hope in the Lord.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

A horse is a false hope for victory;
Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength.

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope for His lovingkindness,

For I hope in You, O Lord;
You will answer, O Lord my God.

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

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

My soul, wait in silence for God only,
For my hope is from Him.

Do not trust in oppression
And do not vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

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

But as for me, I will hope continually,
And will praise You yet more and more.

He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

He raises the poor from the dust
And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Zayin.
Remember the word to Your servant,
In which You have made me hope.

Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live;
And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

I hope for Your salvation, O Lord,
And do Your commandments.

I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait,
And in His word do I hope.

O Israel, hope in the Lord;
For with the Lord there is lovingkindness,
And with Him is abundant redemption.

O Israel, hope in the Lord
From this time forth and forever.

How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

The hope of the righteous is gladness,
But the expectation of the wicked perishes.

When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish,
And the hope of strong men perishes.

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

Discipline your son while there is hope,
And do not desire his death.

Surely there is a future,
And your hope will not be cut off.

Know that wisdom is thus for your soul;
If you find it, then there will be a future,
And your hope will not be cut off.

For you will heap burning coals on his head,
And the Lord will reward you.

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

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.

For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.

“Your navel is like a round goblet
Which never lacks mixed wine;
Your belly is like a heap of wheat
Fenced about with lilies.

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;
But the harvest will be a heap
In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

Then they will be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their boast.

So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?’”

For You have made a city into a heap,
A fortified city into a ruin;
A palace of strangers is a city no more,
It will never be rebuilt.

“For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Therefore justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not overtake us;
We hope for light, but behold, darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.

All of us growl like bears,
And moan sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.

For thus says the Lord, “Behold, I extend peace to her like a river,
And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
And you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees.

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

“O Hope of Israel,
Its Savior in time of distress,
Why are You like a stranger in the land
Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?

Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain?
Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we hope in You,
For You are the one who has done all these things.

O Lord, the hope of Israel,
All who forsake You will be put to shame.
Those who turn away on earth will be written down,
Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the Lord.

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

“There is hope for your future,” declares the Lord,
“And your children will return to their own territory.

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“That I will cause a trumpet blast of war to be heard
Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon;
And it will become a desolate heap,
And her towns will be set on fire.
Then Israel will take possession of his possessors,”
Says the Lord.

“All who came upon them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,
Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness,
Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

“Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

So I say, “My strength has perished,
And so has my hope from the Lord.”

This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I have hope in Him.”

Let him put his mouth in the dust,
Perhaps there is hope.

They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.

‘When she saw, as she waited,
That her hope was lost,
She took another of her cubs
And made him a young lion.

“Heap on the wood, kindle the fire,
Boil the flesh well
And mix in the spices,
And let the bones be burned.

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

The king replied to the Chaldeans, “The command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb and your houses will be made a rubbish heap.

Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way.”

Then the king’s face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.