36 Bible Verses about Waiting For God's Timing

I wait for Jehovah, my soul waits, and in His Word I hope.

As for God, His way is perfect; the Word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield to all those who trust in Him.

And so Jehovah waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For Jehovah is a God of judgment; blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Hope in Jehovah; be of good courage, and He shall make your heart strong; yea, hope in Jehovah.

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.

Wait for me a little, and I will show you that there are yet words for God.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for Jehovah; and He bowed down to me, and heard my cry.

My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

For I, Jehovah, will speak, and the Word that I shall speak shall be done. It shall no more be delayed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the Word and will do it, says the Lord Jehovah.

A little one will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I Jehovah will hasten it in its time.

How much less when you say you do not see Him! Judgment is before Him; you are waiting for Him.

To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before me.

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of him who practices wickedness.

These all wait on You, that You may give them their food in due season.

Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud; and He shall hear my voice.

For his days are fixed, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;

He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.

But if we hope for that which we do not see, then we wait for it with patience.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; He also has become my salvation.

He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down.

For the vision is still for an appointed time, but it speaks to the end, and it does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it; because it will surely come. It will not tarry.

Roll your way on Jehovah; trust also in Him, and He will work.

Therefore be humbled under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time,

Here is the patience of the saints. Here are the ones who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall each one have praise of God.

(For He says, "In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation, I helped you;" Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.)

You also be patient, establish your hearts, for the coming of your Lord draws near.

But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels of Heaven, but only My Father.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, coming into being out of a woman, having come under Law,

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways My ways, says Jehovah.

And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered themselves to Aaron. And they said to him, Up! Make us gods who shall go before us. For this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

preach the Word, be instant in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pull up what is planted;

And it happened when the time had come around, Hannah conceived and bore a son and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of Jehovah.

And he waited seven days, according to the set time with Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal. And the people were scattered from him.

And Jehovah's anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation which had done evil in the sight of Jehovah was destroyed.