Bible Verses About Waiting Upon God

My soul, wait thou in silence for God only; For my expectation is from him.

I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

These wait all for thee, That thou mayest give them their food in due season.

Thou givest unto them, they gather; Thou openest thy hand, they are satisfied with good.

Behold, as the eyes of servantslook unto the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress; So our eyeslook unto Jehovah our God, Until he have mercy upon us.

I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait, And in his word do I hope.

My soul waiteth for the Lord More than watchmen wait for the morning; Yea, more thanwatchmen for the morning.

The eyes of all wait for thee; And thou givest them their food in due season.

Thou openest thy hand, And satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

Say not thou, I will recompense evil: Wait for Jehovah, and he will save thee.

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

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 Jehovah; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial name, is the desire of our soul.

And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him.

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

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.

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, for the name of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for him.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.

Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

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

Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.