'Wait' in the Bible

I wait for your salvation, O Yahweh.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Look, [he is] going out to the water, and you must wait to meet him on the bank of the Nile, and you must take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

But if he did not lie in wait {and it was an accident}, I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

And to the elders he said, "Wait for us here until we return to you. And look, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever {has a dispute} will bring [it] to you."

But if someone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him {and murders him}, and [the murderer] flees to one of these cities,

You shall wait outside, and the man [to] whom you [are] lending, he shall bring the pledge outside to you.

The Gazites [were told], "Samson has come here," so they surrounded [the place] and lay in ambush for him all night at the city gate. They kept silent all night, saying, "[We will wait] until the morning light, and then we will kill him."

The ambush [was] sitting [in wait] for her in an inner room. And she said to him, "[The] Philistines [are] upon you Samson!" And he snapped the bowstrings just as flax fiber snaps when it comes close to fire. And [the secret of] his strength remained unknown.

would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore {refrain from marrying}? No, my daughters, for it is far more bitter to me than [to] you. For the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me."

And she said, "Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today."

Then you will go down before me to Gilgal. Look, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings {and to make} fellowship offerings. You must wait seven days until I come to you. Then I will let you know what you should do."

If they say to us: 'Wait until we reach you,' {then we will stand as we are} and not go up to them.

Joab said, "No longer will I wait in your presence." Then he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he [was] still alive in the oak tree.

While he [was] still speaking with them, suddenly the messenger [was] coming down to him, and he said, "Look this trouble [is] from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?"

Then they said {to one another}, "We [are] not doing right. This day is a day of good news! If we [are] silent and wait until the light of morning, they will find us and {we will be punished}. So then, come, let us go and tell the house of the king."

who wait for death, but {it does not come}, and search [for] it more than [for] treasures,

What [is] my strength, that I should wait? And what [is] my end, that {I should hold out}?

If a man dies, will he live [again]? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.

"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame. Those who betray without cause should be put to shame.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong and let your heart show strength, and wait for Yahweh.

Be strong and let your heart show strength, all [you] who wait for Yahweh.

Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds [in] his way, about a man making plots.

For evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh-- they will possess [the] land.

Wait for Yahweh and keep his way, and he will exalt you to possess [the] land. When [the] wicked are cut off, you will see [it].

Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh. You will answer, O Lord my God.

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is for you.

I will give thanks to you forever, because [of what] you have done, and I will wait on your name, because [it is] good, in the presence of your faithful ones.

They attack, they hide, they watch my {steps}, as they [lie in] wait for my life.

For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not [because of] my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.

Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope [is] from him.

Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh [of] hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.

They all wait for you to give [them] their food {at the proper time}.

They quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

For me [the] wicked [lie in] wait to destroy me. I give attention to your testimonies.

I await Yahweh; my soul awaits, and I wait for his word.

O Israel, wait for Yahweh. For with Yahweh [there is] loyal love, and with him [there is] abundant redemption.

If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause.

They lie in wait for their [own] blood. They ambush their [own] lives.

Now in the street, now in the square, {at} every corner she lies in wait.

Do not say "I will repay evil"; wait for Yahweh and he will deliver you.

She [is] also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.

Do not lie in wait [like] an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence [to] his dwelling place.

And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him.

Surely we wait for you [in] the path of your judgments, Yahweh, for your name and renown [are the] desire of [the] soul.

For [the] tyrant shall be no more, and [the] scoffer shall come to an end. And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off;

Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious [to] you, and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy, for Yahweh [is] a God of justice; blessed [are] all those who wait for him.

Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you. Be our arm in the mornings, indeed our salvation in [the] time of trouble.

But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew [their] strength. They shall go up [with] wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.

He will not grow faint, and he will not be broken until he has established justice in the earth. And [the] coastlands wait for his teaching.

My righteousness [is] near; my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge [the] peoples. [The] coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they wait.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! [there is] darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.

We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.

Because [the] coastlands wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish [are] first to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the holy one of Israel, because he has glorified you.

For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans.

To me he [is] like a bear lying in wait, a lion in hiding.

Yahweh is good to those who wait on him, to the person that seeks him.

[It is] good to wait in silence for the salvation of Yahweh.

They saw falseness and {a lying divination}, the ones saying, 'Declaration of Yahweh!' and Yahweh did not send them, and they wait {for the confirmation of their word}.

Like bandits lying in wait, [so is] a band of priests; they murder [on the] road to Shechem; indeed, they commit a monstrous crime.

But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

And I will be like a lion to them; I lie in wait beside [the] way, like a leopard.

And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many nations, like dew from Yahweh, like showers upon the grass which does not wait for a man, nor delays for the children of humankind.

The faithful [person] has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother [with] a net.

But [as for] me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

For [there is] yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the end, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay.

I hear and my stomach shakes; my lips quiver at the sound; infection enters my bones; that which [is] beneath me trembles; I wait quietly for the day of trouble to come upon the people attacking us.

"Therefore, wait for me"--a declaration of Yahweh-- "for the day of my rising as a witness. For my decision [is] to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them, all my burning anger. For by the fire of my anger all the land shall be consumed.

And [while he] was with [them], he commanded them, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what was promised by the Father, which you heard about from me.

You therefore do not be persuaded by them, because more [than] forty men of {their number} are lying in wait [for] him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have done away with him. And now they are ready, waiting for {you to agree}."

So then, my brothers, [when you] come together in order to eat [the Lord's supper], wait for one another.