Bible Verses About Hope in Despair

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

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.

For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.