34 Bible Verses about God's Timing

As for God, His way is blameless;
The word of the Lord is tried;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

My times are in Your hand;
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

which He will bring about at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—

Thus says the Lord,
“In a favorable time I have answered You,
And in a day of salvation I have helped You;
And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people,
To restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

for He says,
“At the acceptable time I listened to you,
And on the day of salvation I helped you.”
Behold, now is “the acceptable time,” behold, now is “the day of salvation”—

“The smallest one will become a clan,
And the least one a mighty nation.
I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.”

with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him

A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;

For there is a proper time and procedure for every delight, though a man’s trouble is heavy upon him.

A man has joy in an apt answer,
And how delightful is a timely word!

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”

“The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.

At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and I have done all these things at Your word.

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the warriors, and neither is bread to the wise nor wealth to the discerning nor favor to men of ability; for time and chance overtake them all.

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.

But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.

and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

“Even the stork in the sky
Knows her seasons;
And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush
Observe the time of their migration;
But My people do not know
The ordinance of the Lord.

Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command.

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him.”

While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hastily brought Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head covered.