18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!

I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

My eyes long for your promise; I ask, "When will you comfort me?"

So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house."

But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

"For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.

And he said to the vinedresser, 'Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?'

And he answered him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure.

Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'"

because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.