'Hope' in the Bible

Return, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, should I even have a husband to-night, and should I also bear sons,

And also the Hope of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life.

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have acted unfaithfully toward our God, and have taken foreign wives of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?

They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded.

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

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,

And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about thee, thou shalt take rest in safety.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and all refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope shall be the breathing out of life.

For there is hope for a tree: if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;

The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?

He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

Lo, hope as to him is belied: is not one cast down even at the sight of him?

For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

Therefore my heart rejoiceth, and my glory exulteth; my flesh moreover shall dwell in hope.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.

Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his loving-kindness,

For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.

Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, for the health of his countenance.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my youth.

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

And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but observe his commandments;

ZAIN. Remember the word for thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

Thou art my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live; and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

I anticipate the morning-dawn and I cry: I hope in thy word.

I wait for Jehovah; my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption;

Let Israel hope in Jehovah, from henceforth and for evermore.

Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

Jehovah taketh pleasure in those that fear him, in those that hope in his loving-kindness.

The hope of the righteous is joy; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; and the hope of evil men perisheth.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but the desire that cometh to pass is a tree of life.

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; but set not thy soul upon killing him.

Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Hast thou seen a man hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst, There is no hope; no, for I love strangers, and after them will I go.

Thou hope of Israel, its Saviour in the time of trouble, why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveller that turneth aside to stay a night?

Thou hope of Israel, Jehovah! all that forsake thee shall be ashamed. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth; because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.

But they say, There is no hope; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will each one do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope.

And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border.

All that found them devoured them, and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.

Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;

They have seen vanity and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith! and Jehovah hath not sent them; and they make them to hope that the word will be fulfilled.

And when she saw that she had waited and her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off!

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Turn again to the stronghold, prisoners of hope! even to-day do I declare I will render double unto thee.