Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, so they quickly picked up on this and responded, “Yes, it is your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go and bring him.” So Ben-hadad came out to him, and Ahab had him come up into the chariot.

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, responded to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the surrounding peoples, but there is still hope for Israel in spite of this.

Victories of the Jews

The king’s command and law went into effect on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar. On the day when the Jews’ enemies had hoped to overpower them, just the opposite happened. The Jews overpowered those who hated them.

Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?

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

If only my request would be granted and God would provide what I hope for:

What strength do I have that I should continue to hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

Since I cannot help myself, the hope for success has been banished from me.

The caravans of Tema look for these streams. The traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.

My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless will perish.

You will be confident, because there is hope. You will look carefully about and lie down in safety.

But the sight of the wicked will fail. Their way of escape will be cut off, and their only hope is their last breath.

Even if He kills me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways before Him.

There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die.

as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil from the land, so You destroy a man’s hope.

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined. He uproots my hope like a tree.

For what hope does the godless man have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

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

Any hope of capturing him proves false. Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?

For the oppressed will not always be forgotten; the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever.

Be strong and courageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord.