1876 verses about Hope

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

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.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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.

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

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.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?

Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.

You will prolong the king’s life; his years shall be for generations.

He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress— I will never be greatly shaken.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.

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;

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

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

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

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

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Increase my honor, and comfort me again.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.