Bible Verses About Waiting Upon God

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.

I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.

I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, 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!”

Yes, in the way of your judgments, the LORD, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

Therefore the LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

LORD, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

But those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law.”

Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, the LORD our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

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

Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.