Quotes About Hope

Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon until no more room is found for them.

I will strengthen them in the LORD, and in His name they will walk,” declares the LORD.

Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts: ëThe people of Jerusalem are my strength, for the LORD of Hosts is their God.í

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.

Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.

People will live there, and never again will there be an utter destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell securely.

Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.

“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,” says the LORD of Hosts.

You have said, ëIt is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

ëBut you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.í”

After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stood over the place where the Child was.

When they saw the star, they rejoiced with great delight.

Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”