18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, how long will You forget me?
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

I am afflicted and needy;
the Lord thinks of me.
You are my helper and my deliverer;
my God, do not delay.

I am weary from my crying;
my throat is parched.
My eyes fail, looking for my God.

My eyes grow weary
looking for what You have promised;
I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.

Then Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

Therefore, brothers, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

However, I will not do it during your lifetime because of your father David; I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? I will not bring the disaster during his lifetime, because he has humbled himself before Me. I will bring the disaster on his house during his son’s lifetime.”

but the Lord was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them. Even now He has not banished them from His presence.

Because the sentence against a criminal act is not carried out quickly, the heart of people is filled with the desire to commit crime.

I will delay My anger for the honor of My name,
and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

“But he replied to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people—were saved through water.