18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think about me. You are my help and deliverer. My God, do not tarry too long! To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

I am exhausted from calling for help. My throat is parched. My eyes are strained from looking for God.

My eyes grow weary with respect to what you have promised I keep asking, "When will you comfort me?"

Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

Martha told Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop from his land, being patient with it until it receives the fall and the spring rains.

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some people understand slowness, but is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to perish, but wants everyone to repent.

Your descendants will return here in the fourth generation, since the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet run its course."

I'm not going to do this during your lifetime, for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of your son's control.

"Have you noticed that Ahab has humbled himself in my presence? Because he has humbled himself in my presence, I will not bring his evil to harvest during his lifetime, but I will bring evil to his household during his son's lifetime."

but the LORD showed grace to them, displayed his compassion toward them, and turned to them due to his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He would not destroy them or evict them from his presence up until that time.

Whenever a sentence for a crime is not carried out swiftly, the human mind becomes determined to commit evil.

I defer my anger for my name's sake, and as my first act I'm restraining it for you, so as not to cut you off.

So he told the gardener, "Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?'

But the gardener replied, "Sir, leave it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Maybe next year it will bear fruit. If not, then cut it down.'"

who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah, when God waited patiently while the ark was being built. In it a few, that is, eight persons, were saved by water.