Quotes About Hope

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

ëBecause the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.í

not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.

And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.

Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”

He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

Why have you brought the LORDís assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?

Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”

and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.

Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace.