18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

But I [am] poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.

I am weary with my calling [out]; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted [in my] waiting for my God.

My eyes long for your word, saying, "When will you comfort me?"

So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place {where} he was two days.

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

Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the soil, being patient concerning it until it receives the early and late rains.

The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, [because he] does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites {is not yet complete}."

However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it [away].

"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring disaster in his days. I will bring the disaster on his house in the days of his son."

But Yahweh had mercy on them and showed compassion to them and turned to them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them nor cast them from his presence up to now.

Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of {humans} fills up within them to do evil.

For the sake of my name I {refrain from} my anger, and [for] my praise I restrain [it] for you [so as] not to cut you off.

So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, {for three years} I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find [any]. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?'

But he answered [and] said to him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on [it].

And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming [year], [so much the better], but if not, you can cut it down.'"

who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, [while] an ark was being constructed, in which a few--that is, eight souls--were rescued through water.