18 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?

So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.

Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.

Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.

But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now.

Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.

Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.

And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?

And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:

And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water: