Quotes About Hope

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”

You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potterís hands!

The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

The LORDís anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.