'Hope' in the Bible
Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,
For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
“Is not your fear of God your confidence,And the integrity of your ways your hope?
“So the helpless has hope,And unrighteousness must shut its mouth.
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,And come to an end without hope.
“So are the paths of all who forget God;And the hope of the godless will perish,
“Then you would trust, because there is hope;And you would look around and rest securely.
“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,And there will be no escape for them;And their hope is to breathe their last.”
“Though He slay me,I will hope in Him.Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.
“For there is hope for a tree,When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,And its shoots will not fail.
Water wears away stones,Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth;So You destroy man’s hope.
Where now is my hope?And who regards my hope?
“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.
“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,When God requires his life?
For the needy will not always be forgotten,Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
Be strong and let your heart take courage,All you who hope in the Lord.
A horse is a false hope for victory;Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,On those who hope for His lovingkindness,
For I hope in You, O Lord;You will answer, O Lord my God.
“And now, Lord, for what do I wait?My hope is in You.
Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why have you become disturbed within me?Hope in God, for I shall again praise HimFor the help of His presence.
Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why have you become disturbed within me?Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,The help of my countenance and my God.
Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why are you disturbed within me?Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,The help of my countenance and my God.
My soul, wait in silence for God only,For my hope is from Him.
Do not trust in oppressionAnd do not vainly hope in robbery;If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
For You are my hope;O Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth.
But as for me, I will hope continually,And will praise You yet more and more.
Zayin.Remember the word to Your servant,In which You have made me hope.
Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live;And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.
I hope for Your salvation, O Lord,And do Your commandments.
I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait,And in His word do I hope.
O Israel, hope in the Lord;For with the Lord there is lovingkindness,And with Him is abundant redemption.
O Israel, hope in the LordFrom this time forth and forever.
How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,Whose hope is in the Lord his God,
The hope of the righteous is gladness,But the expectation of the wicked perishes.
When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish,And the hope of strong men perishes.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Discipline your son while there is hope,And do not desire his death.
Surely there is a future,And your hope will not be cut off.
Know that wisdom is thus for your soul;If you find it, then there will be 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.
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?There is more hope for a fool than for him.
For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion.
Then they will be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their boast.
So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?’”
“For Sheol cannot thank You,Death cannot praise You;Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
Therefore justice is far from us,And righteousness does not overtake us;We hope for light, but behold, darkness,For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
All of us growl like bears,And moan sadly like doves;We hope for justice, but there is none,For salvation, but it is far from us.
“O Hope of Israel,Its Savior in time of distress,Why are You like a stranger in the landOr like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?
Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain?Or can the heavens grant showers?Is it not You, O Lord our God?Therefore we hope in You,For You are the one who has done all these things.
O Lord, the hope of Israel,All who forsake You will be put to shame.Those who turn away on earth will be written down,Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the Lord.
For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
“There is hope for your future,” declares the Lord,“And your children will return to their own territory.
“All who came upon them have devoured them;And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness,Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’
So I say, “My strength has perished,And so has my hope from the Lord.”
This I recall to my mind,Therefore I have hope.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,“Therefore I have hope in Him.”
Let him put his mouth in the dust,Perhaps there is hope.
They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.
‘When she saw, as she waited,That her hope was lost,She took another of her cubsAnd made him a young lion.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’
“Then I will give her her vineyards from there,And the valley of Achor as a door of hope.And she will sing there as in the days of her youth,As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
Return to the stronghold, O prisoners who have the hope;This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you.
“And in His name the Gentiles will hope.”
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
‘Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted;Moreover my flesh also will live in hope;
But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,
But perceiving that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!”
having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
And now I am standing trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;
the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly serve God night and day. And for this hope, O King, I am being accused by Jews.
Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned.
For this reason, therefore, I requested to see you and to speak with you, for I am wearing this chain for the sake of the hope of Israel.”
In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;
and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?
But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,
For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Again Isaiah says,“There shall come the root of Jesse,And He who arises to rule over the Gentiles,In Him shall the Gentiles hope.”
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
whenever I go to Spain—for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while—
Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
For I do not wish to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.
and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.
who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;
Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech,
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.
not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,
For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
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