Quotes About Hope

I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,

I was the first to tell Zion: ëLook, here they are!í And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news.

“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.

He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

Now this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.

I will say to the north, ëGive them up!í and to the south, ëDo not hold them back!í Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.

Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,

who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:

“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.