Thematic Bible: Waiting upon God


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Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.



The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.


It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God. We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the LORD. We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation."




My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress?I will never be greatly shaken.


Therefore the LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.



Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower. My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.


I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men. For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD. read more.
I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me. You, LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah. They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city. Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?" But you, LORD, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations. Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.


Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed."

Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.


He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and for his law the coastlands will hope."

Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.


LORD, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.









I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your holy ones.




It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.


Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things."






"Therefore wait for me," says the LORD, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.




And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.


For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.


Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.


For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, and neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.


It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God. We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the LORD. We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation."


I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.


Yes, in the path of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.




My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.


Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.


For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.






Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.






Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.


Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.






Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.


I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your holy ones.








Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.