'Waiting' in the Bible
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.
They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say,
And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?
How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.
Let your mercy be on us, O Lord, as we are waiting for you.
Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.
And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.
Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.
They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.
I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
Let not those who have hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord God of armies: let not those who are waiting for you be made low because of me, O God of Israel.
But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.
For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,
Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.
All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.
But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,
The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.
My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.
The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.
Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.
We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.
For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.
O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.
O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.
Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.
Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.
Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.
His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.
Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.
You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
I came near to one of those who were waiting there, questioning him about what all this was. And he said to me that he would make clear to me the sense of these things.
O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.
A blessing will be on the man who goes on waiting, and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.
And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.
For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.
For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.
For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.
To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?
And a number of women were there, watching from a distance, who had come with Jesus from Galilee, waiting on his needs.
There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.
And the people were waiting for Zacharias and were surprised because he was in the Temple for such a long time.
And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.
And coming up at that time, she gave praise to God, talking of him to all those who were waiting for the freeing of Jerusalem.
And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,
Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?
And when the men came to him they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?
And when Jesus went back, the people were glad to see him, for they were all waiting for him.
And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.
Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.
For which is greater, the guest who is seated at a meal or the servant who is waiting on him? is it not the guest? but I am among you as a servant.
And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.
(He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts), of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:
And when they were all together, with him, he gave them orders not to go away from Jerusalem, but to keep there, waiting till the word of the Father was put into effect, of which, he said, I have given you knowledge:
And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times;
And the day after that, they came to Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having got together his relations and his near friends.
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was troubled, for he saw all the town full of images of the gods.
And Paul, after waiting some days, went away from the brothers and went by ship to Syria, Priscilla and Aquila being with him; and he had had his hair cut off in Cenchrea, for he had taken an oath.
But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.
Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.
And while we were waiting there for some days, a certain prophet, named Agabus, came down from Judaea.
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