18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

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

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

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

When therefore he had heard that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.

Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Be patient, therefore, brethren, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receiveth the early and the latter rain.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Notwithstanding, in thy days, I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.

And the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither did he as yet reject them from his presence.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

And he answering, said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

And if it shall bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

Who formerly were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.