Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
8 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “hope” →
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD , and whose hope the LORD is.
O LORD , the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD , the fountain of living waters.
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD , that thy children shall come again to their own border.
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD , the habitation of justice, even the LORD , the hope of their fathers.
