'Hope' in the Bible

Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been to-night to a husband, and also I have borne sons:

And Shechaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answereth and saith to Ezra, 'We -- we have trespassed against our God, and we settle strange women of the peoples of the land; and now there is hope for Israel concerning this,

Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the perfection of thy ways?

And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!

What is my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?

My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

And thou hast trusted because their is hope, And searched -- in confidence thou liest down,

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease.

Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.

And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?

He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down?

For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.

And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it is of Thee.

Only -- for God, be silent, O my soul, For from Him is my hope.

For Thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.

And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise.

Zain. Remember the word to Thy servant, On which Thou hast caused me to hope.

Sustain me according to Thy saying, And I live, and Thou puttest me not to shame Because of my hope.

O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope is on Jehovah his God,

The hope of the righteous is joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.

The desire of the righteous is only good, The hope of the wicked is transgression.

Hope prolonged is making the heart sick, And a tree of life is the coming desire.

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

So is the knowledge of wisdom to thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy hope is not cut off.

Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

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

Near is My righteousness, Gone out hath My salvation and Mine arms, Peoples they judge, on Me isles do wait, Yea, on Mine arm they do wait with hope.

O Hope of Israel -- its saviour in time of trouble, Why art Thou as a sojourner in the land? And as a traveller turned aside to lodge?

The hope of Israel is Jehovah, All forsaking Thee are ashamed, And 'My apostates' in the earth are written, For they have forsaken Jehovah, A fountain of living waters.

Be not Thou to me for a terror, My hope art Thou in a day of evil.

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you -- an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

And there is hope for thy latter end, An affirmation of Jehovah, And the sons have turned back to their border.

All finding them have devoured them, And their adversaries have said: We are not guilty, Because that they sinned against Jehovah, The habitation of righteousness, And the hope of their fathers -- Jehovah.

And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope.

My portion is Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.

He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.

And she seeth, that stayed -- perished hath her hope, And she taketh one of her whelps, A young lion she hath made it.

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.

And given to her her vineyards from thence, And the valley of Achor for an opening of hope, And she hath responded there as in the days of her youth, And as in the day of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee.

and in his name shall nations hope.'

and if ye lend to those of whom ye hope to receive back, what grace have ye? for also the sinful lend to sinners -- that they may receive again as much.

because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet -- my flesh also shall rest on hope,

And her masters having seen that the hope of their employment was gone, having caught Paul and Silas, drew them to the market-place, unto the rulers,

and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, 'Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee -- son of a Pharisee -- concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.'

having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;

and neither sun nor stars appearing for more days, and not a little tempest lying upon us, thenceforth all hope was taken away of our being saved.

for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with you, for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.'

Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it -- in hope,

for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it?

and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect it.

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

and again, Isaiah saith, 'There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations -- upon him shall nations hope;'

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

when I may go on to Spain I will come unto you, for I hope in going through, to see you, and by you to be set forward thither, if of you first, in part, I shall be filled.

or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;

and our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,

Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,

having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope -- your faith increasing -- in you to be enlarged, according to our line -- into abundance,

and I hope that ye shall know that we -- we are not disapproved of;

for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

for our being to the praise of His glory, even those who did first hope in the Christ,

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing 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 apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,

him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me -- immediately;

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.

to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

for what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.