'Hope' in the Bible

Go back home, my daughters! For I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought that there was hope that I could get married tonight and conceive sons,

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the local peoples. Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes,

And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected and will take your rest in safety.

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last."

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

"But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope.

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.

For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!

(Zayin) Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.

Your loyal followers will be glad when they see me, for I find hope in your word.

(Kaf) I desperately long for your deliverance. I find hope in your word.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I find hope in your word.

I am up before dawn crying for help. I find hope in your word.

I hope for your deliverance, O Lord, and I obey your commands.

O Israel, hope in the Lord, for the Lord exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.

O Israel, hope in the Lord now and forevermore!

How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.

When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and the hope of his strength perishes.

What the righteous desire leads only to good, but what the wicked hope for leads to wrath.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.

Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.

For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Likewise, know that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, you will have 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 someone who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

But whoever is among the living has hope; a live dog is better than a dead lion.

Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed.

At that time those who live on this coast will say, 'Look what has happened to our source of hope to whom we fled for help, expecting to be rescued from the king of Assyria! How can we escape now?'"

Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?

Then I said, "Lord, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.

You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.

For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

Indeed, there is hope for your posterity. Your children will return to their own territory. I, the Lord, affirm it!

So I said, "My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord."

But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope:

"My portion is the Lord," I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.

Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

"'When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, 'Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.'

From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the "Valley of Trouble" into an "Opportunity for Hope." There she will sing as she did when she was young, when she came up from the land of Egypt.

Indeed, the residents of Maroth hope for something good to happen, though the Lord has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.

Those survivors from Jacob will live in the midst of many nations. They will be like the dew the Lord sends, like the rain on the grass, that does not hope for men to come or wait around for humans to arrive.

Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Gaza will be in great anguish, as will Ekron, for her hope will have been dried up. Gaza will lose her king, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.

Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.