Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons—

“Did I ask you for a son, my lord?” she said. “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t raise my hopes’?”

We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.

Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

“Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,

“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?

The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.

“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; so perishes the hope of the godless.

You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”

Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.

“At least 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 a person’s hope.

If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,

where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?

He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.

For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?

Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.

Any hope of subduing it is false; the mere sight of it is overpowering.

But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.

No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause.

Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save.

But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.

May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.

For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

Hope in the Lord and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.

“But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

For what you have done I will always praise you in the presence of your faithful people. And I will hope in your name, for your name is good.

Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.

Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas,

Lord, the Lord Almighty, may those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel, may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me.

For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.

As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.

Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws.

ז Zayin

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

May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.

כ Kaph

My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.

You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.

Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.

I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.

Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.

Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore.

Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God.

the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.

Hopes placed in mortals die with them; all the promise of their power comes to nothing.

The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.

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

Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death.

There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

Those who work with combed flax will despair, the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his teaching the islands will put their hope.”

Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”

My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.

You wearied yourself by such going about, but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’ You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint.

Judgment and Hope

This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?

We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom.

You who are the hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only a night?

Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror.

Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.

Lord, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water.

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

So there is hope for your descendants,” declares the Lord. “Your children will return to their own land.

Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture, the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’

So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.

“‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

Hope for the Mountains of Israel

“Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’

There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

Ashkelon will see it and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, and Ekron too, for her hope will wither. Gaza will lose her king and Ashkelon will be deserted.

Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.