Quotes about Expectation
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
— Jeremiah 8:15
Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
— Jeremiah 13:12
After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,
— Jeremiah 42:7
At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
— Ezekiel 3:16
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
— Amos 5:18
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
— Haggai 1:9
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
— Haggai 2:16
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
— Matthew 7:10
to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
— Matthew 11:3
As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?
— Matthew 11:7
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.
— Matthew 11:8
What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
— Matthew 11:9