No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;
O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?
Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.
A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.
Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.
For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.
And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.
Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.
And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.
... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.
They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;
But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.
Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;
Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!
Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?
So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.
They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.
My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.
The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.
These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.
I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.
And in his name will the Gentiles put their hope.
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