'Hope' in the Bible

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

I rise before dawn and cry out for help;I put my hope in Your word.

Lord, I hope for Your salvationand carry out Your commands.

Those who trust in and rely on the Lord [with confident expectation]Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever.

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

In the morning let me hear of your gracious love, for in you I trust. Cause me to know the way I should take, because I have set my hope on you.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.

So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

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

The desire of the righteous turns out well,but the hope of the wicked leads to wrath.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place.

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

For then you will have a future,and your hope will never fade.

realize that wisdom is the same for you.If you find it, you will have a future,and your hope will never fade.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Seest thou a man that is 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.

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?

“It is the Lord of hosts whom you are to regard as holy and awesome.He shall be your [source of] fear,He shall be your [source of] dread [not man].

And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look eagerly for Him.

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

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?’”

My heart staggers;horror terrifies me.He has turned my last glimmer of hopeinto sheer terror.

And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.

“Trust [confidently] in the Lord forever [He is your fortress, your shield, your banner],For the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].

Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?

See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?

How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him]Will gain new strength and renew their power;They will lift up their wings [and rise up close to God] like eagles [rising toward the sun];They will run and not become weary,They will walk and not grow tired.

He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.

They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

Kings will be your foster fathers,and their queens your nursing mothers.They will bow down to youwith their faces to the ground,and lick the dust at your feet.Then you will know that I am Yahweh;those who put their hope in Mewill not be put to shame.

My righteousness is near,My salvation appears,and My arms will bring justice to the nations.The coastlands will put their hope in Me,and they will look to My strength.

Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Therefore justice is far from us,and righteousness does not reach us.We hope for light, but there is darkness;for brightness, but we live in the night.

We all growl like bearsand moan like doves.We hope for justice, but there is none;for salvation, but it is far from us.

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

“Truly, [the hope of salvation from] the hill [where idols are worshiped] is a deception,A tumult and noisy multitude on the mountains;Truly in the Lord our GodIs the salvation of Israel.

[We] hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.

Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.

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?

O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

Have You completely rejected Judah?Do You detest Zion?Why do You strike uswith no hope of healing for us?We hoped for peace,but there was nothing good;for a time of healing,but there was only terror.

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?Or can the skies alone give showers?Are You not the Lord our God?We therefore put our hope in You,for You have done all these things.

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.

Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.

And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.

... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

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

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Let him sit alone [in hope] and keep quiet,Because God has laid it on him [for his benefit].

He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

Our eyes failed, searching in vain for hope; we kept watching and looking for a nation that would not help.

They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

""They say, ""declares the LORD," even though the LORD didn't send them. And they hope for the fulfillment of their message. You've crafted a false prophesy and spoken deceptive divination, haven't you? But then you say, ""declares the LORD," although I haven't spoken a single word.

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

And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Then 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 for our parts.

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.

But you must return to your God.Maintain love and justice,and always put your hope in God.

The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

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

The survivors of Jacob will live among many nations, as dew from the LORD, as showers upon the grass. They will look to no one, and will place no hope in human beings.

Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

But as for me, I will look expectantly for the Lord and with confidence in Him I will keep watch;I will wait [with confident expectation] for the God of my salvation.My God will hear me.

Ashkelon will see it and be afraid;Gaza too, and will writhe in great pain,as will Ekron, for her hope will fail.There will cease to be a king in Gaza,and Ashkelon will become uninhabited.

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

The nations will put their hope in His name.