'Delay' in the Bible

The people were waiting for Zacharias, and were wondering at his delay in the temple.

'And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them?

So they rose and without an hour's delay returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and the rest met together, who said to them,