'Expectation' in the Bible

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].

Men listened to me with expectation,waiting silently for my advice.

“Behold, your expectation is false;Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

“And now, Lord, for what do I expectantly wait?My hope [my confident expectation] is in You.

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

But this I call to mind,Therefore I have hope.

“Then I will give her her vineyards from there,And make the Valley of Achor a door of hope and expectation [anticipating the time when I will restore My favor on her].And she will sing there and respond as in the days of her youthAs in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.