The expression of possible hope reveals that the submission to God's chastening is not bending over to a blind fate but takes place in trusting surrender; the soul expects that a solution will still come. The word used for hope comes from the same root as the word, wait (Lamentations 3:25). Both implies an anticipation of God’s intervention for relief. Still, it is only a possibility that is expressed: There may yet be hope.
There are no guarantees or demands. If salvation comes, it will come as a gift from God who is sovereign and free.1 On the other hand, this expression of hope is not one of a skeptic. It is a confession of God’s mercies expressed by a believer who humbles himself before God and knows that God revealed himself as just and merciful to his covenant people.2
29 let him put his mouth in the dust there may yet be hope;