18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

And I am poor and needy, The Lord doth devise for me. My help and my deliverer art Thou, O my God, tarry Thou not.

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'

when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,

Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, 'Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

'Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;

'Hast thou seen that Ahab hath been humbled before Me? because that he hath been humbled before Me, I bring not in the evil in his days; in the days of his son I bring in the evil on his house.'

and Jehovah doth favour them, and pity them, and turn unto them, for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and hath not been willing to destroy them, nor to cast them from His presence as yet.

Because sentence hath not been done on an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

For My name's sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off.

and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

'And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

and if indeed it may bear fruit -- ;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;