Quotes about Hope

For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.

The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”

then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’”

Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.