28 Bible Verses about Hope, Results Of Its Absence

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister, where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded. Thy fierce wrath has gone over me. Thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me like water all the day long. They encompassed me around together.read more.
Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded.

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.

My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.

And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.

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 is lost. We are clean cut off.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my

Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.

When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint. Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions, so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says LORD of hosts.

Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

And in those days men will seek death, and will, no, not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

Who, against hope, believed in hope, in order for him to become father of many nations according to that which was spoken, So thy seed will be.

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get themselves back to the land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. Therefore they cried to LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood. For thou, O LORD, have done as it pleased thee.

Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says LORD: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you. Return ye now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways But they say, It is in vain. For we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

And when neither sun nor stars appeared for more days, and no small storm laying on, all remaining hope for us to be saved was taken away.

And having cast down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed, and after going away, he hanged himself.

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his s

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire,