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When I looked for good, then evil came unto me:
And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
The troops of Tema looked,
The companies of Sheba waited for them.
They were confounded because they had hoped;
They came thither, and were ashamed.
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.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,
And the stock thereof die in the ground;
Yet through the scent of water it will bud,
And bring forth boughs like a plant.
But man dieth, and wasteth away:
Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
As the waters fail from the sea,
And the flood decayeth and drieth up:
So man lieth down, and riseth not:
Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,
Nor be raised out of their sleep.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone:
And mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
When God taketh away his soul?
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee:
They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion?
Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us?
We looked for peace, and there is no good;
And for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Ashkelon shall see it, and fear;
Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful,
And Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed;
And the king shall perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness:
But the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish:
And the hope of unjust men perisheth.
The desire of the righteous is only good:
But the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Fret not thyself because of evil men,
Neither be thou envious at the wicked;
For there shall be no reward to the evil man;
The candle of the wicked shall be put out.
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,