'Hope' in the Bible
Turn back, my daughters! Go, for {I am too old to have a husband}. If I should think there is hope for me, even if I should have a husband [this] night, and even if I should bear sons,
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, "We ourselves have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, and even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see [the] eyelids of dawn
[Is] not your fear [in God] your confidence? [Is not] your hope even the integrity of your ways?
So there is hope for the powerless, and wickedness shuts its mouth.
"{O that} my request may come, and [that] God may grant my hope,
The caravans of Tema looked; the traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.
So [are] the paths of all who forget God; and [the] hope of [the] godless will perish,
And you will have confidence because there is hope; and you will be well protected--{you will sleep in safety}.
But [the] eyes of [the] wicked will fail; and refuge will be lost to them, and their hope [is] {to breathe their last breath}."
Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.
"Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;
Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away [the] soil of [the] earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings.
If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,
where then [is] my hope? And {who will see my hope}?
He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,
for what [is the] hope of [the] godless when he cuts [them] off, when God takes away his life?
Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as [by] the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.
"Look, {the hope of capturing it} is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?
for [the] needy shall not always be forgotten; the hope of the poor shall never perish.
The horse [is] a false hope for victory, nor can it save by the greatness of its power.
Behold, the eye of Yahweh [is] on those who fear him, on those who hope for his loyal love
Let your loyal love, O Yahweh, be upon us, {even as} we hope in you.
And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is for you.
Why are you {in despair}, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, [for] the salvation of his presence.
Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.
Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.
Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope [is] from him.
because you [are] my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.
But as for me, I will hope continually and increase your praise.
And do not snatch [the] word of truth utterly from my mouth, for I hope in your ordinances.
Remember [your] word to your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope.
Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I hope in your word.
My soul languishes for your salvation; I hope in your word.
You [are] my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.
Sustain me according to your word, that I may live, and do not let me be ashamed of my hope.
I rise early in the dawn and cry for help; I hope in your word.
I hope for your salvation, O Yahweh, and do your commands.
O Israel, hope in Yahweh from now until forever.
Blessed [is the one] whose help [is] the God of Jacob, whose hope [is] on Yahweh [as] his God,
Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, the ones who hope for his loyal love.
The hope of the righteous [is] gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.
With the death of a wicked person, hope will die, and the expectation of the godless perishes.
Hope that is deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled [is] a tree of life.
Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire.
{Surely} there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Thus know wisdom for [the sake of] your soul, if you find [it], then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
[Do] you see a man wise in his own eyes? [There is more] hope for a fool than for him.
You see a man who is hasty in his words: [there is more] hope for a fool than him.
Whoever is joined to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion!
What more [was there] to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why did I hope for [it] to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes?
And they shall be dismayed, and they shall be ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their pride.
And [the] inhabitant [of] the coastland will say this on that day: 'Look! This [is] our hope [to] whom we fled for help, to be delivered {from} the king of Assyria, and how shall we escape?'"
For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
[We] hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.
Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.
[You are] the hope of Israel, its savior in time of distress. Why should you be like an alien in the land, or like a traveler who spreads out [his tent] to spend the night?
Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hope for peace, but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror.
Are there [any] among the idols of the nation [who] cause rain to pour? Or can the heavens give showers? [Is] it not you, Yahweh our God? Therefore, we hope in you, for you do all these [things].
Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all [those who] forsake you will be put to shame, and [those who] turn aside from you in the earth will be recorded, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, Yahweh.
For I know the plans that I [am] planning concerning you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.
And there is hope for your future," {declares} Yahweh, "and [your] children will return to their territory.
All [those who] found them have devoured them. And their foes have said, 'We are not guilty, {because} they have sinned against Yahweh, the {true pasture}, even Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.'
This {I have reminded myself}, therefore I will hope.
"Yahweh is my portion," says my soul, "Thus I will hope on him."
Let {him put} his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.
And she saw that she was waiting [in vain]; her hope was destroyed, and she took one from her cubs, [and] she made him a fierce lion.
And he said to me, "Son of man, these bones [are] all of the house of Israel; look! [they are] saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; {we are cut off as far as we are concerned}.'
From there I will give her her vineyards, and the Valley of Achor as a doorway of hope. And there she will respond, as [in] the days of her youth, just as [in] the day of her coming out of the land of Egypt.
Ashkelon will see and will be afraid, and Gaza will writhe exceedingly, and Ekron [also], because its hope is ruined. And the king from Gaza will perish, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
Return to [the] fortress, O prisoners of hope; today [I am] declaring [that] I will repay you double.
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