29 Bible Verses about Waiting On God

Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

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

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.

Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes [are] to LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.

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.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for thee, for thou have made all these things.

Guide me in thy truth, and teach me. For thou are the God of my salvation. For thee do I wait all the day.

The eyes of all wait for thee, and thou give them their food in due season. Thou open thy hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

Let your loins be girded about, and the lights burning, and be ye like men waiting for their lord, when he may return from the wedding festivities, so that when he comes and knocks, they may straightaway open to him. Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord when he comes will find watching. Truly I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to sit down, and having come, will serve them.read more.
And if he should come in the second watch, and should come in the third watch, and find so, blessed are those bondmen. But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore, ye also become ready, because the Son of man comes at that hour ye do not suppose.

so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

Awaiting the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

so also the Christ, having been offered once in order to take up the sins of many, will appear a second time, independent of sin, to those waiting for him for salvation.

O LORD, in the morning thou shall hear my voice. In the morning I will direct to thee, and will keep watch.

And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

For we, in a Spirit of faith, wait for a hope of righteousness.

Our soul has waited for LORD. He is our help and our shield.

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

My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples. The isles shall wait for me, and on my arm they shall trust.

But as for me, I will look to LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will {be a man who has trusted (LXX/NT)} in him.

And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience.

LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him. LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of LORD.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of the Lamb that they held. And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth? And a white robe was given to them each, and it was said to them that they should still rest a time, until also their fellow bondmen, and their brothers, and those going to be killed as they too, would be fulfilled.

I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

And now, LORD, what do I wait for? My hope is in thee.

Joseph of Arimathaea came, an honorable councilman who also himself was awaiting the kingdom of God, emboldened, he went in near Pilate, and requested the body of Jesus.

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the encouragement of Israel, and Holy Spirit was upon him.