For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.

All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the Lord, their habitation of righteousness, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord.”

But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”

let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;

When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.’

And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.

Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”

But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope.

But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.

And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,

to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain.”