18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

When I am poor and needy; the Lord will remember me; thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Mine eyes fail for thy spoken word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.

Then Martha said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died.

Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently until it receives the early and latter rain.

The Lord is not late concerning his promise, as some count lateness, but is patient with us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

But 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.

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

But the LORD was merciful unto them, and had compassion on them, and looked upon them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and did not desire to destroy them or to cast them from his presence as yet.

Because the 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 wait patiently for thee that I not cut thee off.

Then he said unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none; cut it down; why does it cumber the ground?

And he, answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also until I shall dig about it and dung it,

and if it bears fruit, well; and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

which in the time past were disobedient, when once the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being made ready, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.