36 Bible Verses about Waiting For God's Timing

I hoped for Jehovah -- hoped hath my soul, And for His word I have waited.

God! perfect is His way, The saying of Jehovah is tried, A shield is He to all those trusting in Him.

And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment is Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.

Look unto Jehovah -- be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

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,

Honour me a little, and I shew thee, That yet for God are words.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. I have diligently expected Jehovah, And He inclineth to me, and heareth my cry,

In Thy hand are my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

For I am Jehovah, I speak, The word that I speak -- it is done, It is not prolonged any more, For, in your days, O rebellious house, I speak a word, and I have done it, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

The little one doth become a chief, And the small one a mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it!

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices.

All of them unto Thee do look, To give their food in its season.

Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,

If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect it.

Lo, God is my salvation, I trust, and fear not, For my strength and song is Jah Jehovah, And He is to me for salvation.

He made the moon for seasons, The sun hath known his place of entrance.

For yet the vision is for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh,

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

Here is endurance of the saints: here are those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

for He saith, 'In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now is a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;

And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers of the heavens -- except my Father only;

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,

For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

And the people see that Moses is delaying to come down from the mount, and the people assemble against Aaron, and say unto him, 'Rise, make for us gods who go before us, for this Moses -- the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt -- we have not known what hath happened to him.'

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

and it cometh to pass, at the revolution of the days, that Hannah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Samuel, 'for, from Jehovah I have asked him.'

And he waiteth seven days, according to the appointment with Samuel, and Samuel hath not come to Gilgal, and the people are scattered from off him.

and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He causeth them to wander in the wilderness forty years, until the consumption of all the generation which is doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.