My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

I am up before dawn crying for help. I find hope in your word.

Everything looks to you in anticipation, ¹  and you provide them with food on a regular basis. ² 

So Pilate asked them, ¹  “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?”

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” ¹ 

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. ¹ 

Yet ¹  not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth ¹  with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.” ² 

Our adversaries also boasted, ¹  “Before they are aware or anticipate ²  anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”

Those who anticipate my defeat ¹  attack me all day long. Indeed, ²  many are fighting against me, O Exalted One. ³ 

The Lover to His Beloved: ¹  I went down to the orchard of walnut trees, ²  to look for the blossoms of the valley, ³  to see if the vines had budded or if the pomegranates were in bloom.

Indeed ¹  Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not ²  praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.

He will not grow dim or be crushed ¹  before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands ²  will wait in anticipation for his decrees.” ³ 

I am ready to vindicate, ¹  I am ready to deliver, ²  I will establish justice among the nations. ³  The coastlands ⁴  wait patiently for me; they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power. ⁵ 

But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem ¹  to be a source of joy, ²  and her people to be a source of happiness. ³ 

While the people were filled with anticipation ¹  and they all wondered ²  whether perhaps John ³  could be the Christ, ⁴ 

So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial. ¹ 

Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body ¹  also will live in hope,