100 Bible Verses About Waiting

And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.

And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;

Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

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

And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king’s gate.

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

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.

Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

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.

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

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.

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

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

Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

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

Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

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

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.

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

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.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.

And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

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

And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield.

And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

And he put them all together into ward three days.

I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

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

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.

And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

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

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

And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

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.

And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not.

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

And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.

And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.

Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more.

So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.

So we abode in the valley over against Beth–peor.

Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;

And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.

Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.

And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.

And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,