Quotes About Waiting

I await Your salvation, O LORD.

Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”

So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.

there were still seven tribes of Israel who had not yet received their inheritance.

So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.

Siseraís mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ëWhy is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?í

Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.

So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”

And you shall go before me to Gilgal, and surely I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you are to do.”

“Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”

And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.

If they say, ëWait until we come to you,í then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.

And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”

When Davidís young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.

See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.

They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.

“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”

and the prophet went and waited on the road for the king, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.

While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”