Quotes About Hope

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.

My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?

Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.

“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ëYou will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.í”

You are to speak this word to them: ëMy eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.