100 Bible Verses About Anticipation

Bible verses about Anticipation

The scriptures teach us that anticipation, when rooted in faith, is not merely wishful thinking, but a powerful force that shapes our present and future. Exploring Bible verses about anticipation reveals a profound connection between hope, expectation, and God's promises. It's about more than just waiting; it's about actively preparing our hearts and minds for the blessings and revelations God has in store. Understanding this principle through scripture empowers us to live with joy, purpose, and unwavering trust, even amidst uncertainty, knowing that God's timing is perfect and His faithfulness endures.

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Numbers 13:29 (KJV)

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

Hopeful Waiting: Bible Verses on Anticipation

And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

1 Chronicles 1:6KJV

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

Deuteronomy 23:8KJV

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

2 Kings 18:35KJV

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song of Solomon 2:7KJV

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

1 Kings 17:4KJV

And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

1 Kings 9:18KJV

Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.

Exodus 30:18KJV

And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.

Genesis 43:33KJV

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Exodus 23:20KJV

And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

Leviticus 23:15KJV

And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

Numbers 16:5KJV

And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.

Nehemiah 2:16KJV

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth–lehem–judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

1 Samuel 17:12KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:

Exodus 4:4KJV

And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.

Deuteronomy 33:5KJV

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 24:6KJV

Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

Nehemiah 2:9KJV

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

Genesis 22:10KJV

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

Numbers 21:3KJV

The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

Numbers 34:15KJV

And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

2 Kings 4:17KJV

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

1 Samuel 17:50KJV

And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

Exodus 12:25KJV

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Proverbs 18:1KJV

Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh–barnea.

Joshua 14:6KJV

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Psalms 18:43KJV

And he brought Aaron’s sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

Leviticus 8:24KJV

And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

Numbers 11:7KJV

To them which were in Beth–el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,

1 Samuel 30:27KJV

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.

1 Kings 4:31KJV

And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.

Genesis 27:31KJV

And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:

1 Samuel 10:18KJV

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

Psalms 119:123KJV

If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Ecclesiastes 10:10KJV

She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

Proverbs 9:2KJV

For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Leviticus 25:12KJV

Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

Isaiah 48:16KJV

And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

Deuteronomy 10:3KJV

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Deuteronomy 20:15KJV

Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

Numbers 11:19KJV

Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:

Deuteronomy 14:25KJV

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

Genesis 34:10KJV

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

Proverbs 4:8KJV

Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim–hodshi; and they came to Dan–jaan, and about to Zidon,

2 Samuel 24:6KJV

And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

Judges 3:26KJV

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.

Genesis 34:8KJV

And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

1 Samuel 6:16KJV

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

Isaiah 3:6KJV

Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Psalms 60:9KJV

And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.

Exodus 36:10KJV

And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

Genesis 24:16KJV

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

Genesis 24:63KJV

Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:29KJV

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

Judges 20:29KJV

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Isaiah 64:4KJV

And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

Exodus 27:12KJV

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus 3:5KJV

And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

Exodus 18:6KJV

These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.

Exodus 6:26KJV

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Numbers 10:23KJV

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

Isaiah 22:20KJV

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

Deuteronomy 31:10KJV

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 54:1KJV

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Numbers 13:30KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Leviticus 14:1KJV

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Psalms 88:10KJV

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 65:25KJV

And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying,

Leviticus 10:8KJV

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Genesis 15:13KJV

Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

Isaiah 43:5KJV

The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

Isaiah 21:11KJV

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

Deuteronomy 8:1KJV

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Isaiah 11:7KJV

And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

Leviticus 26:10KJV

Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

Judges 3:2KJV

The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Deuteronomy 28:12KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

Exodus 12:1KJV

And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

Judges 8:9KJV

Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

Judges 1:1KJV

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

Numbers 13:29KJV

And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.

Judges 2:6KJV

And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.

2 Chronicles 34:14KJV

And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

Deuteronomy 26:8KJV

And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken;

Isaiah 38:7KJV

And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the Lord, in Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:7KJV

So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.

Joshua 6:27KJV

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Isaiah 28:24KJV

Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:

Genesis 43:13KJV

And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I have performed the commandment of the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:13KJV

And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

1 Kings 5:2KJV

And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth–el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

Judges 1:23KJV

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.

Genesis 49:8KJV

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:6KJV

These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

Numbers 26:63KJV

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.

Psalms 118:26KJV

Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

Isaiah 63:2KJV

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 2:4KJV

And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,

Joshua 19:42KJV

Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.

1 Kings 2:20KJV

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 6:3KJV

The Bible's verses on anticipation paint a powerful picture of hope intertwined with patient waiting. From anticipating the Messiah's arrival to yearning for Christ's return and the promise of eternal life, these scriptures highlight the importance of expectant faith. They encourage us to cultivate a spirit of eager longing, not for earthly possessions or fleeting pleasures, but for God's presence and the fulfillment of His promises. Reflect on these verses, allowing them to shape your perspective and refine your desires. Let anticipation fuel your prayer life, inspire acts of service, and strengthen your resolve to live a life worthy of the hope that is within you. Embrace the present moment while steadfastly looking forward to the glorious future God has prepared, remembering that He is faithful to fulfill every promise He has made.