HOPE

Hosea 2:14, 15 tells us:
14 “ Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
Will bring her into the wilderness,
And speak comfort to her.
15 I will give her her vineyards from there,
And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;
She shall sing there,
As in the days of her youth,
As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

The notations in my Bible give some light on the word HOPE

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The Hebrew word for HOPE in this passage is tiqvah (teek-vuh) In the Strongs Exhaustive Concordance it is #8615:
Hope; expectation; something yearned for and anticipated eagerly; something for which one waits. Tiqvah comes from the verb qavah, meaning "to wait for" or "to look hopefully" in a particular direction. It's original meaning was "to stretch like a rope" Tiqvah occurs 33 times in the Bible. In Joshua 2:18, 21, it is translated "line" or "cord"; Rahab was instructed to tie a scarlet tiqvah (cord or rope) in her window as her hope for rescue. God Himself is the hope of the godly (Psalm 71:5). Here God's blessing on His land will transform the Valley of Achor ("trouble") into the "door of hope."

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Father, I thank You for HELPING US to keep our HOPE in You, Lord. Help us to keep our eyes on YOU, to look hopefully to You. I ask You to bring us and keep us in places that remind us that there is nothing going on around us that is out of your ever watching eye towards us, and that YOU alone are the ONE that will RESCUE us out of any and all traps laid by hell. Thank You for the promise of Your Word and that truly, our HOPE is in You. In the Name of Jesus.