28 Bible Verses about Hope, Results Of Its Absence

Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark. I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister. What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for?

Hope deferred grieveth the heart; but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.

What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient?

my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind. Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me; and the fear of thee hath undone me. They came round about me daily like water, and compassed me together on every side.read more.
My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

Such as labour upon flax and silk, shall come to poverty, and they also that weave fine works.

For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth:

Brethren, I would not have you ignorant of our trouble, which happened unto us in Asia. For we were grieved out of measure passing strength, so greatly that we despaired even of life.

{To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.

I thought in myself, "I am undone; there is no hope for me in the LORD."

Moreover, he said unto me, "Thou son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, we are clean cut off.'

And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers."

"Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts? Which long for death, if it come not;

And Rebekah spake to Isaac, "I am weary of my life, for fear of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such one as these are, or of the daughters of the land, what lust should I have to live?"

Wherefore, if thou deal thus with me; kill me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight: and let me not see my wretchedness."

When I think, 'My bed shall comfort me; I shall have some refreshing by talking to myself upon my couch,' then troublest thou me with dreams - and makest me so afraid through visions that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.

And all they that remain of this wicked generation, shall desire rather to die than to live: wheresoever they remain, and whereas I scatter them, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.

Which Abraham, contrary to hope, believed in hope: that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, "So shall thy seed be."

Nevertheless the men assayed with rowing to bring the ship to land: but it would not be, because the sea so wrought and was so troublous against them. Wherefore they cried unto the LORD and said, "O LORD let us not perish for this man's death, neither lay innocent blood unto our charge: for thou LORD, even as thy pleasure was, so thou hast done."

"Speak now therefore unto whole Judah, and to them that dwell at Jerusalem. Thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I am devising a plague for you, and am taking a thing in hand against you. Therefore let every man turn from his evil way, take upon you the thing that is good, and do right. But they say, 'No more of this, we will follow our own imaginations, and do every man according to the wilfulness of his own mind.'

When at the last neither sun nor star in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay upon us, all hope that we should be saved, was then taken away.

And he cast down the silver plates in the temple, and departed, and went and hung himself.

Then said Saul unto his harness bearer, "Draw out thy sword and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come thrust me through and make a mockingstock of me." But his harness bearer would not, for he was sore afraid. Wherefore Saul took a sword and fell upon it.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his own house and to his own city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

And when Zimri saw that the city must needs be taken, he went into the palace of the king's house, and set the king's house afire upon himself; and there died,