34 Bible Verses about God's Timing

God—His way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is pure.
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

The course of my life is in Your power;
deliver me from the power of my enemies
and from my persecutors.

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end.

God will bring this about in His own time. He is

the blessed and only Sovereign,
the King of kings,
and the Lord of lords,

There is an occasion for everything,
and a time for every activity under heaven:

This is what the Lord says:

I will answer you in a time of favor,
and I will help you in the day of salvation.
I will keep you, and I will appoint you
to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land,
to make them possess the desolate inheritances,

For He says:

I heard you in an acceptable time,
and I helped you in the day of salvation.

Look, now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation.

The least will become a thousand,
the smallest a mighty nation.
I am Yahweh;
I will accomplish it quickly in its time.

for the administration of the days of fulfillment—to bring everything together in the Messiah, both things in heaven and things on earth in Him.

a time to give birth and a time to die;
a time to plant and a time to uproot;

When the time came to completion, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority.

For every activity there is a right time and procedure, even though man’s troubles are heavy on him.

A man takes joy in giving an answer;
and a timely word—how good that is!

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”

The Rock—His work is perfect;
all His ways are entirely just.
A faithful God, without prejudice,
He is righteous and true.

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

Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, or the battle to the strong, or bread to the wise, or riches to the discerning, or favor to the skillful; rather, time and chance happen to all of them.

The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

“Now concerning that day and hour no one knows—neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son —except the Father only.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
it testifies about the end and will not lie.
Though it delays, wait for it,
since it will certainly come and not be late.

For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time,

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to show favor to her—
the appointed time has come.

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

Even the stork in the sky
knows her seasons.
The turtledove, swallow, and crane
are aware of their migration,
but My people do not know
the requirements of the Lord.

From the Issacharites, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won’t overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

While they were still speaking with him, the eunuchs of the king arrived and rushed Haman to the banquet Esther had prepared.

Then Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate, but Haman, overwhelmed, hurried off for home with his head covered.