Go back home, my daughters! For I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought that there was hope that I could get married tonight and conceive sons,

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the local peoples. Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams; the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them.

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; the hope of the godless perishes,

And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected and will take your rest in safety.

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.

The Inevitability of Death

“But 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 man’s hope.

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.

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

But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

for the needy are not permanently ignored, the hopes of the oppressed are not forever dashed.

But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!

Patiently wait for God alone, my soul! For he is the one who gives me hope.

For you are my hope; O Sovereign Lord, I have trusted in you since I was young.

ז (Zayin)

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

Your loyal followers will be glad when they see me, for I find hope in your word.

כ (Kaf)

I desperately long for your deliverance. I find hope in your word.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I find hope in your word.