And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God

“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.

Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord God of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

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

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

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Christ the Hope of Jews and Gentiles

For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

(for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.