'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.
and on his name shall the nations hope.
And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what thank is it to you? for even sinners lend to sinners that they may receive the like.
Therefore has my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; yea more, my flesh also shall dwell in hope,
And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged them into the market before the magistrates;
But Paul, knowing that the one part of them were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: I am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead.
having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.
And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of the Jews.
And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no small storm lying on us, in the end all hope of our being saved was taken away.
For this cause therefore I have called you to me to see and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I have this chain about me.
who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:
by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;
and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:
for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected the same, in hope
For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?
But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.
As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:
For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over the nations: in him shall the nations hope.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
whenever I should go to Spain; (for I hope to see you as I go through, and by you to be set forward thither, if first I shall have been in part filled with your company;)
or does he say it altogether for our sakes? For for our sakes it has been written, that the plougher should plough in hope, and he that treads out corn, in hope of partaking of it.
And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are the most miserable of all men.
For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.
(and our hope for you is sure;) or whether we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.
For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,
Having therefore such hope, we use much boldness:
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.
not boasting out of measure in other people's labours, but having hope, your faith increasing, to be enlarged amongst you, according to our rule, yet more abundantly
Now I hope that ye will know that we are not reprobates.
For we, by the Spirit, on the principle of faith, await the hope of righteousness.
being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens 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, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;
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