Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.


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Exodus 23 26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Leviticus 25 11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Leviticus 26 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
Leviticus 26 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Deuteronomy 19 5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Joshua 23 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
Judges 9 11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
1 Samuel 2 33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
2 Chronicles 19 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
Job 3 9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Job 3 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Job 3 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 8 14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
Job 8 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Job 11 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Job 14 7 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.
Job 14 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Job 17 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Job 17 15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 18 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Job 19 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job 20 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job 29 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job 41 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Psalms 1 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Psalms 9 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 10 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psalms 16 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Psalms 16 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalms 22 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
Psalms 27 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalms 30 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalms 31 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 33 20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
Psalms 37 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Psalms 37 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psalms 39 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psalms 39 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms 44 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Psalms 49 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 58 8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Psalms 62 1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
Psalms 62 5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Psalms 63 1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms 69 32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalms 71 5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
Psalms 71 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Psalms 79 8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Psalms 84 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.