I wait for your salvation, O Lord (Ge 49:18).
It will be said on that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation (Is 25:9).
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! (Ps Ps 31:24).
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him (Is 30:18).
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love (Ps 33:18).
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint (Is 40:31).
O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night? (Jr 14:8).
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things (Jr 14:22).
But for you, O Lord, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer (Ps 38:15).
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope (Jr 29:11).
The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him (Lm 3:24).
And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you (Ps 39:7).
So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God (Ho 12:6).
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me (Mi 7:7).
I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry (Ps 40:1).
Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double (Zec 9:12).
And in his name the Gentiles will hope (Mt 12:21).
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation (Ps 42:5).
Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust (Acts 24:15).
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God (Ro 5:2).
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Ro 5:3-4).
For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him (Ps 62:5).
And again Isaiah says, The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope (Ro 15:12).
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope (Ro 15:13).
But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more (Ps 71:14).
If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied ( Co 15:19).
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again (2 Co 1:9-10).
I hope for your salvation, O Lord, and I do your commandments (Ps 119:166).
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness (Ga 5:5).
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints (Eph 1:18).
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope (Ps 130:5).
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe (1 Ti 4:10).
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy (1 Ti 6:17).
O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore (Ps 131:3).
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen (He 11:1).
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Pe 1:3).
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure (1 Jn 3:3).