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Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.
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Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
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Then they shall be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia their hope and of Egypt their boast.
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And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’”
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Hope for the Future
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
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For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness.
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My deliverance draws near speedily, my salvation has gone forth, and my arms will rule the peoples; the coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they hope.
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You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, “It is hopeless”; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.
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Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.’
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O thou hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why shouldst thou be like a stranger in the land, like a wayfarer who turns aside to tarry for a night?
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Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.
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O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame; those who turn away from thee shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
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False Prophets of Hope Denounced
Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the Lord and because of his holy words.
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Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes; they speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.
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For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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There is hope for your future, says the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.
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Zedekiah’s Vain Hope
Zedeki′ah the son of Josi′ah, whom Nebuchadrez′zar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coni′ah the son of Jehoi′akim.
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All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the Lord, their true habitation, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’
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But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
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“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
