Quotes About Hope

You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.

May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.

For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed.

He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped.

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

until I entered Godís sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.

You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.

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

A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?