Quotes About Hope

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.

I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ëThe end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ëThe LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.í