Job 19:25
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Waiting, not having, is much of this list — Psalm 62:5, Psalm 130:5, Isaiah 40:31. Proverbs 13:12 is left in as well: hope deferred maketh the heart sick. The complaint sits beside the promise.
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For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
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.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
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.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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