'Hope' in the Bible

Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, "We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

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

"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh. By David. A contemplative psalm.

Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;

For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation by David.

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

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

Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

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

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore. A Song of Ascents.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their own border.

All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.

This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then 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 clean cut off.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

In his name, the nations will hope."

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

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

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

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."

Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope."

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

whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

But now faith, hope, and love remain -- these three. The greatest of these is love.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

But I hope that you will know that we aren't disqualified.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,