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Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

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

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.