18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

As for me, I am poor, and in misery, but the LORD careth for me. Thou art my helper and redeemer; make no long tarrying, O my God.

I am weary of crying; my throat is dry. My sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my God.

Mine eyes long sore for thy word, saying, "O when wilt thou comfort me?"

After he heard that he was sick, then abode he two days still in the same place where he was.

Then said Martha unto Jesus, "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not been dead:

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience there upon, until he receive the early and the latter rain.

The Lord is not slack to fulfill his promise as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.

and in the fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full."

Notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it, because of David thy father: but I will take it from thy son.

"Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? Because he so submitteth himself before me, I will not bring that evil in his days: but in his son's days, I will bring evil upon his house."

But the LORD had mercy on them and pitied them and turned to them because of his covenant made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and would not destroy them, either cast them from him as yet.

Because now that evil works are not hastily punished, the heart of man giveth himself over unto wickedness.

Nevertheless, for my name's sake, I have withdrawn my wrath, and for mine honour's sake I have overseen thee, so that I have not rooted thee out.

Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, 'Behold, this three years have I come and sought fruit in this fig tree, and find none. Cut it down. Why cumbereth it the ground?'

And he answered and said unto him, 'Lord let it alone this year also, till I dig round about it, and dung it,

to see whether it will bear fruit: and if it bear not, then after that, cut it down.'"

which were in time past disobedient, when the long suffering of God abode exceeding patiently in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few - that is to say eight souls - were saved by water,