18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?

I am oppressed and needy! May the Lord pay attention to me! You are my helper and my deliverer! O my God, do not delay!

I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.

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

So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

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.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."

However, for your father David's sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son's hand instead.

"Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son."

But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. He extended his favor to them because of the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.

When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

For the sake of my reputation I hold back my anger; for the sake of my prestige I restrain myself from destroying you.

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.'"

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.