18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?

But I am poor and needy, [yet] LORD thinks upon me. Thou are my help and my deliverer. Make no delay, O my God.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

My eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When will thou comfort me?

When therefore he heard that he is sick, then he actually remained two days in that place he was.

Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou were here, my brother would not have died.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

And in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

Notwithstanding I will not do it in thy days, for David thy father's sake, but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

See thou how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.

But LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither did he cast them from his presence as yet.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

For my name's sake I will defer my anger, and for my praise I will refrain for thee, that I not cut thee off.

And he said to the vine workman, Behold, three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none. Cut it down, why also waste the ground?

And having answered, he says to him, Sir, allow it this year also until I may dig around it and cast manure.

Although surely it should bear fruit, and if not, in the coming year thou will cut it down.

who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.