3 Bible Verses about God Waiting

Therefore the LORDwaits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.

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.