Isaiah 42:14
"I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.
Job 32:18
For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.
Job 32:20
I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.
Psalm 50:2
From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, God comes in splendor.
Psalm 83:1-2
A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!
Ecclesiastes 8:11-12
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
Jeremiah 15:6
I, the Lord, say: 'You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.' So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!"
Jeremiah 44:22
Finally the Lord could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.
Luke 18:7
Won't God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?
2 Peter 3:9-10
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:15
And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,