'Wait' in the Bible

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

Yet I wait for you, O Lord! You will respond, O Lord, my God!

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance -- My God!

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

He will turn the evil upon those who lie in wait for me. Cut them off with your truth.

My enemies have trampled upon me all day long,For they are many who fight proudly against me.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

My God in His [steadfast] lovingkindness will meet me;God will let me look triumphantly on my enemies [who lie in wait for me].

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David. For God alone I patiently wait; he is the one who delivers me.

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise.

My eyes gloated over those who lie in wait for me; when those of evil intent attack me, my ears will hear.

These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

They soon forgot His worksand would not wait for His counsel.

Never take your truthful words from me, For I wait for your ordinances.

May those who fear You see me and be glad,Because I wait for Your word.

Kaph.My soul languishes for Your salvation;I wait for Your word.

My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

How many days must Your servant wait?When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?

The wicked lay in wait to destroy me, while I ponder your decrees.

You are my hiding place and my shield;I wait for Your word.

My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, for your reliable promise to be fulfilled.

I rise before dawn and cry for help;I wait for Your words.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

I wait for the Lordmore than watchmen for the morning—more than watchmen for the morning.

Israel doth wait on Jehovah, For with Jehovah is kindness, And abundant with Him is redemption.

Israel doth wait on Jehovah, From henceforth, and unto the age!

The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

The Lord favors those who fear Him,Those who wait for His lovingkindness.

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

For this is what the Lord has told me: "I will wait and watch from my place, like scorching heat produced by the sunlight, like a cloud of mist in the heat of harvest."

Yes, Yahweh, we wait for Youin the path of Your judgments.Our desire is for Your name and renown.

Be delayed and wait,Blind yourselves and be blind;They become drunk, but not with wine,They stagger, but not with strong drink.

For the ruthless one will vanish,the scorner will disappear,and all those who lie in wait with evil intentwill be killed—

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Lord, be gracious to us! We wait for You.Be our strength every morningand our salvation in time of trouble.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away; I am bringing my salvation near, it does not wait. I will save Zion; I will adorn Israel with my splendor."

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

“Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;And you who have no money come, buy grain and eat.Come, buy wine and milkWithout money and without cost [simply accept it as a gift from God].

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

We make a noise as bears -- all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation -- it hath been far from us.

Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

Since ancient times no one has heard, and no ear has perceived, and no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

"Look up at the hilltops and consider this. You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."

So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the desert they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

Give glory to the Lord your Godbefore He brings darkness,before your feet stumbleon the mountains at dusk.You wait for light,but He brings darkest gloomand makes thick darkness.

Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

“The Lord is my portion and my inheritance,” says my soul;“Therefore I have hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.”

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ when the Lord did not send them, yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

Tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: "Watch out! I'm coming to get you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt! You big monster! You lay in wait in the middle of your waterways and say, "My waterways belong to me! I made them for myself!"

Then I told her, "You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or have sexual intercourse with another man, and I also will wait for you."

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

So I will be like a lion to them;Like a leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.

Though the residents of Marothanxiously wait for something good,disaster has come from the Lordto the gate of Jerusalem.

Then the remnant of Jacobwill be among many peopleslike dew from the Lord,like showers on the grass,which do not wait for anyoneor linger for mankind.

The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Nineveh is a reservoir whose water is draining away. "Wait! Wait!" they cry, yet not even one person looks back.

"I will stand at my guard post and station myself on a tower. I will wait and see what the LORD will say about me and what I will answer when he reprimands me."

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

I heard, and I trembled within;my lips quivered at the sound.Rottenness entered my bones;I trembled where I stood.Now I must quietly wait for the day of distressto come against the people invading us.

Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

and asked him, "Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?"

Then he told them, "I'm so deeply grieved that I feel I'm about to die. Wait here and stay awake with me."

But the others kept saying, "Wait! Let's see if Elijah will come and save him."

Jesus went to her, and taking her by the hand, raised her up; and the fever left her, and she began to serve them [as her guests].

And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

For the Son of Man also did not come to be waited upon, but to wait on others, and to give His life as the redemption-price for a multitude of people."

So he told them, "I'm deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Wait here and stay awake."

So someone ran and soaked a sponge in some sour wine. Then he put it on a stick and offered Jesus a drink, saying, "Wait! Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down!"

and sent them to the Lord to ask, "Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?"