hope
They are attacked by all who find them. Their enemies say, ‘They sinned against the Lord, and so what we have done is not wrong. Their ancestors trusted in the Lord, and they themselves should have remained faithful to him.’
The Lord is good to everyone who trusts in him,
I have not much longer to live; my hope in the Lord is gone.
So it is best for us to wait in patience — to wait for him to save us —
The Lord is all I have, and so I put my hope in him.
When we suffer, we should sit alone in silent patience;
We should bow in submission, for there may still be hope.
Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:
God said to me, “Mortal man, the people of Israel are like these bones. They say that they are dried up, without any hope and with no future.
Their visions are false, and their predictions are lies. They claim that they are speaking my message, but I have not sent them. Yet they expect their words to come true!
