The people were waiting for Zacharias, and were wondering at his delay in the temple.

now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him, “Do not delay in coming to us.”

Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.’

So after they had assembled here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought before me.

For yet in a very little while,
He who is coming will come, and will not delay.

and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there will be delay no longer,