Isaiah 30:18
For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
Proverbs 16:20
He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.
Isaiah 25:9
And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.
Isaiah 33:5
The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
2 Peter 3:15
And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;
Psalm 2:12
For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.
Psalm 34:8
By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.
Isaiah 5:16
But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.
Isaiah 8:17
And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
Jeremiah 17:7
A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
Exodus 34:6
And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
1 Samuel 2:3
Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
Job 35:14
How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
Psalm 27:14
Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
Psalm 28:6-7
May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.
Psalm 40:1-3
When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.
Psalm 46:10-11
Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.
Psalm 62:1-2
My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.
Psalm 62:5-8
My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope.
Psalm 76:5-10
Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.
Psalm 84:12
O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.
Psalm 99:4
The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
Isaiah 18:4
For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.
Isaiah 26:7-8
The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
Isaiah 33:10-12
Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
Isaiah 42:1-4
See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
Isaiah 42:14
I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
Isaiah 57:17-18
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.
Jeremiah 10:24-25
O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.
Jeremiah 31:18-20
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
Lamentations 3:25-26
The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
Hosea 2:14
For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.
Hosea 5:15-2
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
Hosea 11:8-9
How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.
Jonah 3:4-10
And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.
Micah 7:7-9
But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.
Micah 7:18-20
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
Malachi 2:17
You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?
Matthew 15:22-28
And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.
Luke 2:25
And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.
Luke 15:20
And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.
Luke 24:26-27
Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?
Acts 2:33-39
And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.
Acts 5:31
Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.
Romans 2:2-10
And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.
Romans 5:20
And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
Romans 8:25-28
But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.
Romans 9:22
What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:
Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
Ephesians 1:8
Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;
Ephesians 1:20-23
By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
Romans 9:15-18
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.