28 Bible Verses about Hope, Results Of Its Absence

Should I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness? If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister! Where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me?

Expectation deferred makes the heart sick. When the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

What strength do I have, that I should wait and hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

Ever since I was young, I have been suffering and near death. I have endured your terrors, and now I am in despair. Your burning anger has swept over me. Your terrors have destroyed me. They swirl around me all day long like water. They surround me on all sides.read more.
You have taken my loved ones and friends far away from me. Darkness is my only friend!

Those who work with combed flax will despair. The weavers of fine linen (and cotton) will lose hope.

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that began in Asia. We were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

([Psalm of David]) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away from my deliverance, so far away from the words of my moaning? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer. I cry by night, but I find no rest.

I said: My strength is cut off, and my hope from Jehovah.

Jehovah also said: Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.

Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down under a broom plant and wished he would die. It is just too much, Jehovah, he prayed. Take away my life. I could just as well be dead.

Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart? They long for death that does not come. They search for it more than for hidden treasure.

Rebekah said to Isaac: I cannot stand Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.

If you treat me like this have pity on me and kill me. That way I will not have to endure my shame any longer.

When I think: 'My bed will comfort me, and I will try to forget my misery with sleep, you shatter me with dreams. You terrify me with visions.' I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.

Then the few who remain from these wicked people will want to die rather than live where I will scatter them, declares Jehovah of Hosts.

Now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live.

Men will seek death in those days and will not find it. They will desire to die and death will elude them.

In hope against hope Abraham believed that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken: So your descendants will be.

The men rowed hard to get back to the land; but they could not! The sea grew more and more stormy against them. So they cried to Jehovah, and said: We earnestly request that you, O Jehovah, do not let us perish because of this man. Do not allow the loss of innocent blood! For you, O Jehovah, have done as you pleased.

Now say to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem, This is what Jehovah says: 'I am going to prepare a disaster and make a plot against you. Turn from your evil ways, change your lives, and do good.' But they will answer, It is useless! We will live the way we want to. We will go our own stubborn, evil ways.

The sun and stars did not appear for many days. No small tempest pressed upon us. All hope of our being saved was taken away.

He left the silver in the Temple. Then he went away and hanged himself.

He said to the young man carrying his weapons: Draw your sword and kill me. That way these godless Philistines will not gloat over me and kill me. But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it.

Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed. He saddled his donkey and went back to his hometown. He arranged his affairs in order and he hanged himself. He was buried in the family grave.

Zimri saw that the city had fallen. So he went into the palace's inner fortress and set the palace on fire. He died in the flames.