Bible Verses About Unfulfilled Expectations

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

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

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

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

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

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?

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

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

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.

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

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

But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.