18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

But I am poor and needy; Jehovah will care for me; You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.

I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me?

Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.

Then 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 earth and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain.

The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

But I will not do it in your days, for David your father's sake, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

Do you see how Ahab humbles himself before Me? Because he humbles himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days. But in his son's days I will bring the evil on his house.

And Jehovah was gracious to them, and had pity on them, and had respect to them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And He would not destroy them, nor cast them from His presence as yet.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

For My name's sake I will put off My anger, and for My praise I will hold back for you, that I do not cut you off.

And he said to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none. Cut it down, why does it encumber the ground?

And answering, he said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and throw manure.

And if it bears fruit, well; and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.

to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared (in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water);