Quotes About Hope

“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your sonís head will fall to the ground.”

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.

Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ëI will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.

For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from Godís inheritance.í

Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

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

Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”

So he called out and told the king. “If he is alone,” the king replied, “he bears good news.” As the first runner drew near,

the watchman saw another man running, and he called out to the gatekeeper, “Look! Another man is running alone!” “This one also brings good news,” said the king.

The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”

Just then the Cushite came and said, “May my lord the king hear the good news: Today the LORD has avenged you of all who rose up against you!”

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

My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

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

They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

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

For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

God is my strong fortress and He makes my way clear.

You have given me Your shield of salvation, and Your gentleness exalts me.

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

The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.í