hope
‘When she saw that she waited, that her hope was lost,She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
I will give her her vineyards from there,And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;She shall sing there,As in the days of her youth,As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
The Lord also will roar from Zion,And utter His voice from Jerusalem;The heavens and earth will shake;But the Lord will be a shelter for His people,And the strength of the children of Israel.
Therefore I will look to the Lord;I will wait for the God of my salvation;My God will hear me.
Return to the stronghold,You prisoners of hope.Even today I declareThat I will restore double to you.
Ashkelon shall see it and fear;Gaza also shall be very sorrowful;And Ekron, for He dried up her expectation.The king shall perish from Gaza,And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
And in His name Gentiles will trust.”
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.