Ecclesiastes 9:4: “For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.” “…how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from which one hopes for…there can be no peace without
Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The fool folded his hands together and eats his own flesh.” This could sound a bit creepy if you read it literally. Obviously this is a metaphor. Most of our commentaries tend to agree that the writer is basically saying that there are people who feel the world owes them a living.
Psalms 42:5, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.” This meaning of this passage seems pretty clear, David is talking to his soul and demanding to know why it is
Psalms 71:5: “ For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.” I don’t know about you but somehow I cannot see David hoping God will come through. Our modern concept of the word hope implies a sense of uncertainty. In other words, “I hope the Chicago
Jeremiah 18:12: “And they said, There is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices and we will everyone do the imaginations of his own evil heart.” “If I do it, I get a vippin,—– I do it.” Red Skelton -Mean Little Kid That is quite a thing for the
Jeremiah 18:12: “And they said, There is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices and we will everyone do the imaginations of his own evil heart.” “If I dud it, I get a vippin,—– I dud it.” Red Skelton -Mean Little Kid That is quite a thing for the people
Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Jeremiah 25:5: “They (the prophets) said: ‘Repent now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever.” Some translations render this passage as
