Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I were even to have a husband tonight and also give birth to sons,

Then she said, “Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not give me false hope’?”

For we are strangers before You, and temporary residents, 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 your fear of God not your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?

So the helpless has hope, And injustice has shut its mouth.

“Oh, that my request might come to pass, And that God would grant my hope!

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And they 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 a man’s hope.

If I hope for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;

Where then is my hope? And who looks at 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 makes an end of life, When God requires his life?

For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

A horse is a false hope for victory; Nor does it rescue anyone by its great strength.

“And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, For my hope is from Him.

For You are my hope; Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth.

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.