Waiting on God

¹ I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.

² Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.

³ For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.

But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!

Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.

I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

⁸¹ My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

⁸² My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

⁸³ Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

⁸⁴ How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?

⁵ I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

⁶ My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning— more than watchmen wait for the morning.

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

²⁵ The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

²⁶ It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

⁴³ “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.”

⁴⁴ On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”

Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.

I await Your salvation, O LORD.

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.

And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.

⁶ So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,

⁷ and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.

⁶ After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

⁷ and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

⁸ Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

⁹ But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

¹⁰ Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

¹¹ And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

¹² And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

¹ Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

² So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

¹⁹ Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.

²⁰ Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.

¹⁰ And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

¹¹ Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.

Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.

And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”

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.”

From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”

The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.

Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

So Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you put off entering and possessing the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?