Turn again, my daughters, go [your way]; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
[Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig [about thee, and] thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow [out] of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.
Thou [art] my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.
Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God:
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
When a wicked man dieth, [his] expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust [men] perisheth.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man [that] turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Be not a terror unto me: thou [art] my hope in the day of evil.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
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