Quotes About Future

Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.

Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.

For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.

“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.

“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.

Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.í

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

You will never return to the land for which you long.”

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.í

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.

ëThey will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,í declares the LORD. ëThen I will bring them back and restore them to this place.í”

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylonís seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.í”

For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.í”

Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this.

So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.