100 Bible Verses About Waiting on God

And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

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.

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.

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.

For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

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.

I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.

All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.

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

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

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

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.

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

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.

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

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

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

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

Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

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

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

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.

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

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

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

How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

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.

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

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

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

And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

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;

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

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

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

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

The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

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.

We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

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.

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

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

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.