28 Bible Verses about Hope, Results Of Its Absence

If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch; To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm. Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!

Hope deferred, sickeneth the heart, - but, a tree of life, is desire fulfilled.

for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.

What is my strength, that I should hope? Or what mine end, that I should prolong my desire?

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

Afflicted have I been, and dying, from youth, I have borne the terror of thee - I shall be distracted! Over me, have passed thy bursts of burning anger, The alarms of thee have put an end to me; They have surrounded me like waters, all the day, They have come circling against me together:read more.
Thou hast far removed from me, lover and friend, Mine acquaintances, are in darkness.

Then shall turn pale The workers in combed flax, - and The weavers of white linen;

For, hades, cannot praise thee Nor, death, celebrate thee, - They who go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened in Asia, - that, exceedingly, beyond power, were we weighed down, so that we despaired, even of life.

My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation? My God! I keep crying - By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.

And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.

Then said he unto me, Son of man. These bones, are all the house of Israel, - Lo! they are saying. Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope We are quite cut off!

But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day's journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub, - and asked for his life, that he might die, and said - Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.

Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul? - Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:

So then Rebekah said unto Isaac, I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth, - Should Jacob be taking a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these, of the daughters of the land, wherefore could I wish for life?

But if, in this way, thou art going to deal with me, slay me, I beseech thee, slay, if I have found favour in thine eyes, - and let me not see my grief,

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help to carry my complaint, Then thou scarest me with dreams, and, by visions, dost thou terrify me: So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than these my bones!

Then shall, death, be chosen rather than life, by all the remnant of them that remain, of this wicked family, - in all the places, whither I have driven them, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take, I pray thee, my life from me, - for it were better for me, to die, than, to live.

And, in those days, shall men seek death, and in nowise shall find it, and shall covet to die, and death fleeth from them.

Who, past hope, upon hope believed, so that he became father of many nations, - according to what had been said - So shall be thy seed; -

Nevertheless the men, wrought hard, to bring it back unto the land, but could not, - for, the sea, was raging over them more and more. Then cried they unto Yahweh, and said, Ah now, Yahweh, pray let it not be that we perish for this man's life, neither lay upon us innocent blood, - for, thou, O Yahweh, as thou hast pleased, hast ever done.

Now, therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the men of Judah and concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, Thus, saith Yahweh, - Lo! I am fashioning against you calamity, and devising against you, a device, - Return I pray you every man from his wicked way, And amend your ways and your doings. And, since they will say, Hopeless! For after our own devices, will we walk, And, very one, the stubbornness of his own wicked heart, will we do!

And, neither, sun nor stars, appearing for many days, and, no small tempest, lying upon us, in the end, all hope that we should be saved, began to be taken from us.

And, throwing the pieces of silver into the Temple, he withdrew, and, going away, hanged himself.

Then said Saul to his armour-bearer - Draw thy sword and pierce me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come, and pierce me through, and abuse me. But his armour-bearer was not willing, for he was sore afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell thereon.

Now, when, Ahithophel, saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went unto his own house, unto his own city, and gave charge unto his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the grave of his father.

And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was captured, that he entered into the citadel of the house of the king, - and burned over him the house of the king, with fire, and died: