O Lord, you alone are my hope. I’ve trusted you, O Lord, from childhood.

主耶和华啊，你是我所盼望的；从我年幼，你是我所倚靠的。

主耶和华啊，你是我所盼望的；自我年幼，你是我所倚靠的。

主耶和华啊，你是我所盼望的；自我年幼，你是我所倚靠的。

主耶和华啊，你是我的盼望，我从小就信靠你。

因为你是我的盼望；主耶和华啊！你是我自幼以来所倚靠的。

因为你是我的希望！主耶和华啊，自幼以来你就是我的依赖！

主－耶和華啊，你是我所盼望的；從我年幼，你是我所倚靠的。

主耶和華啊，你是我所盼望的；自我年幼，你是我所倚靠的。

主耶和華啊，你是我所盼望的；自我年幼，你是我所倚靠的。

主耶和華啊，你是我的盼望，我從小就信靠你。

因為你是我的盼望；主耶和華啊！你是我自幼以來所倚靠的。

因為主啊、只有你是我所盼望的；永恆主啊、只有你是我幼年以來所倚靠的。

因為你是我的希望！主耶和華啊，從我年幼以來，你就是我的依賴！

主耶和華歟、爾為我望、我自幼冲、惟爾是恃兮、

余自孩提、惟主耶和華是望兮。

我所仰望者惟有主、主天主歟、我自幼時、即倚恃主、

主乃我之望。自幼所依恃。

For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.

You are the King and the Lord. You have always been my hope. I have trusted in you ever since I was young.

For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

For You are my hope; Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth.

For You are my hope, O Lord GOD; You are my trust from my youth.

For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou art my trust from my youth.

For You are my hope, Lord God, my confidence from my youth.

For thou[ art] my hope, O Lord GOD:[ thou art] my trust from my youth.

For you give me confidence, O Lord; O LORD, I have trusted in you since I was young.

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

“ But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.

I am worn out waiting for your rescue, but I have put my hope in your word.

And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you.

O God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood, and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.

Lord, don’t terrorize me! You alone are my hope in the day of disaster.

I long for your rescue, Lord, so I have obeyed your commands.

David replied to the Philistine,“ You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies— the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel!And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!”

So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with the oil. And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.

“ Don’t be ridiculous!” Saul replied.“ There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You’re only a boy, and he’s been a man of war since his youth.”But David persisted.“ I have been taking care of my father’s sheep and goats,” he said.“ When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock,I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death.I have done this to both lions and bears, and I’ll do it to this pagan Philistine, too, for he has defied the armies of the living God!The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!” Saul finally consented.“ All right, go ahead,” he said.“ And may the Lord be with you!”

O Hope of Israel, our Savior in times of trouble, why are you like a stranger to us? Why are you like a traveler passing through the land, stopping only for the night?

But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me.

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who turn away from you will be disgraced. They will be buried in the dust of the earth, for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.

You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.

Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast.I was thrust into your arms at my birth. You have been my God from the moment I was born.

I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

There the child grew up healthy and strong. He was filled with wisdom, and God’s favor was on him.

Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and my God!

All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said,‘ We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against the Lord, their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.’

Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say,“ Life is not pleasant anymore.”