Quotes About Hope

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.

Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.

Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.

They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.

They did not ask, ëWhere is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?í

Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?

Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”

Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?í This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ëReturn, O faithless Israel,í declares the LORD. ëI will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,í declares the LORD. ëI will not be angry forever.

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.

“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.

Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.