Quotes About Hope

However, the line of Korah did not die out.

For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;

They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.

They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ëThe people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.í”

So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!

The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt

“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God Himself will fight for you.”

At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:

Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”

But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.

You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ëBecause the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.í

He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.