36 Bible Verses about Waiting For God's Timing

I wait for LORD. My soul waits, and in his word do I hope,

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

And therefore LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you. And therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you. For LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD.

The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

I waited patiently for LORD, and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

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

For I am LORD. I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed. It shall be no more deferred. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it, says lord LORD.

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, LORD, will hasten it in its time.

How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked man is before me.

Rest in LORD, and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

These all wait for thee, that thou may give them their food in due season.

Evening, and morning, and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, [even] LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation.

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows his going down.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lay. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

Commit thy way to LORD. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.

Therefore be lowered under the mighty hand of God, so that he may lift you up in time,

Here is the perseverance of the sanctified. Here are those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

(for he says, At an acceptable time I heard thee, and in a day of salvation I helped thee. Behold, now is an acceptable time. Behold, now is a day of salvation),

Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

But about that day and hour no man knows, not even the agents of the heavens, except my Father only.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born from a woman, born under law,

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make gods for us, which shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man that brought

preach the word, stand ready in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted,

And it came to pass, when the time came about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son. And she called his name Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of LORD.

And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed], but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him.

And LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of LORD was consumed.