Hope Verses
Scriptures that remind us of the living hope we have in Christ Jesus.
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; {should have...: or were with an husband}
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. {tarry: Heb. hope} {it grieveth...: Heb. I have much bitterness}
For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}
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.
Now in the twelfth month, that {is}, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
{Is} not {this} thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant {me} the thing that I long for! {the thing...: Heb. my expectation}
What {is} my strength, that I should hope? and what {is} mine end, that I should prolong my life?
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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: