Quotes About Hope

Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.

when God rose up to judge, to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah

For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

With power You redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.