36 Bible Verses about Waiting For God's Timing

I look for the LORD; my soul doth wait for him, and in his word is my trust.

The way of God is an undefiled way; the word of the LORD also is tried in the fire. He is the defender of all them that put their trust in him. {TYNDALE: The way of God is undefiled, and the word of the LORD fined as gold, and he a shield to all that trust in him.}

Yet standeth the LORD waiting, that he may have mercy upon you, and lifteth himself up, that he may receive you to grace. For the LORD God is righteous. Happy are all they that wait for him.

O tarry thou the LORD's leisure. Be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart; and put thou thy trust in the LORD.

The Lord is not slack to fulfill his promise as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.

"Hold thee still a little, and I shall show thee what I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David} I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling.

My time is in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

For it is I, the LORD, that speak it: and whatsoever I, the LORD, speak, it shall be performed, and not be slacken in coming. Yea even in your days, O ye froward household, will I devise something and bring it to pass, sayeth the LORD God.'"

The youngest and least shall grow into a thousand, and the simplest into a strong people. I the LORD shall shortly bring this thing to pass in his time.

"When thou speakest, then, should not he pardon thee, if thou open thyself before him, and put thy trust in him?

{To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."

Hold thee still in the LORD, and abide patiently upon him: but grieve not thyself at one that hath prosperity, and liveth in abomination.

These wait all upon thee, that thou mayest give them meat in due season.

In the evening, and morning, and at noon day will I mourn and complain: and he shall hear my voice.

The days of man are short, the number of his months are known only to thee. Thou hast appointed him his bounds; he cannot go beyond them.

All this hath he ordained marvelous goodly, to every thing his due time. He hath planted ignorance also in the hearts of men, that they should not find out the ground of his works, which he doth from the beginning to the end.

But and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience abide for it.

Behold, God is my salvation: I will be bold therefore and not fear. For the LORD God is my strength and my praise whereof I sing: and is become my saviour.

Thou hast appointed the moon for certain seasons, the sun knoweth his going down.

for the vision is yet far off for a time, but at the last it shall come to pass, and not fail. And though he tarry, yet wait thou for him, for in very deed he will come, and not be slack.

Commit thy way unto the LORD, set thy hope in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

Submit yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you, when the time is come.

Here is the patience of saints. Here are they that keep the commandments and the faith of Jesus.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.

For he saith, "I have heard thee in a time accepted: and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee." Behold, now is that well accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

Be ye also patient therefore, and settle your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

But of that day and hour knoweth no man: no not the angels of heaven, but my father only.

But when the time was full come, God sent his son - born of a woman, and made bond unto the law -

For thus sayeth the LORD: My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.

And when the people saw that it was long or Moses came down out of the mountain, they gathered themselves together and came unto Aaron and said unto him, "Up, and make us a god to go before us: for of this Moses, the fellow that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become."

Preach the word, be fervent; be it in season, or out of season. Improve, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

There is a time to be born, and a time to die. There is a time to plant, and a time to pluck up the thing, that is planted;

And in process of time she conceived and bare a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the LORD.

And he tarried seven days, as Samuel had appointed. But Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people scattered from him.

And the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed.