21 Bible Verses about Short Time For Action

and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away--

Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.

But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.

But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?"

The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day--

Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.

"Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.

And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

So they were saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay."

For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it--though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.

to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."

They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."

For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste."And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off

And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, "Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.

For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.

they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.