Lexicon :: Strong's H8615 - tiqvâ

“Is not your fear of God your confidence,

And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?

“So the helpless have hope,

And injustice shuts its mouth.

“Oh that my request would come to pass,

And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,

And are spent without hope.

“So are the paths of all who forget God;

And the hope of the godless will perish,

“Then you would trust [with confidence], because there is hope;

You would look around you and rest securely.

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,

And they will not escape [the justice of God];

And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”

“For there is hope for a tree,

If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,

And that the shoots of it will not cease nor fail, [but there is no such hope for man].

Water wears away the stones,

Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,

So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

Where now is my hope?

And who regards or considers or is even concerned about my hope?

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;

He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

“For what is the hope of the godless, even though he has gained [in this world],

When God takes his life?

For the poor will not always be forgotten,

Nor the hope of the burdened perish forever.

For God alone my soul waits in silence and quietly submits to Him,

For my hope is from Him.

For You are my hope;

O Lord GOD, You are my trust and the source of my confidence from my youth.

The hope of the righteous [those of honorable character and integrity] is joy,

But the expectation of the wicked [those who oppose God and ignore His wisdom] comes to nothing.

When the wicked man dies, his expectation will perish;

And the hope of [godless] strong men perishes.

The desire of the righteous brings only good,

But the expectation of the wicked brings wrath.

Discipline and teach your son while there is hope,

And do not [indulge your anger or resentment by imposing inappropriate punishment nor] desire his destruction.

Surely there is a future [and a reward],

And your hope and expectation will not be cut off.

Know that [skillful and godly] wisdom is [so very good] for your life and soul;

If you find wisdom, then there will be a future and a reward,

And your hope and expectation will not be cut off.

Do you see a man [who is unteachable and] wise in his own eyes and full of self-conceit?

There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Do you see a [conceited] man who speaks quickly [offering his opinions or answering without thinking]?

There is more hope for a [thickheaded] [fn]fool than for him.

“There is [confident] hope for your future,” says the LORD;

“Your children will come back to their own country.

Let him put his mouth in the dust [in recognition of his unworthiness];

There may yet be hope.

‘When she saw, as she waited,

That her hope was lost,

She took [fn]another of her cubs

And made him a young lion.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

“Then I will give her her vineyards from there,

And make the Valley of Achor a door of hope and expectation [anticipating the time when I will restore My favor on her].

And she will sing there and respond as in the days of her youth

As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], O prisoners who have the hope;

Even today I am declaring that I will restore double [your former prosperity] to you [as firstborn among nations].