For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.
[Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my defence.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from him.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.
Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
The words of the wicked [are] to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment 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] face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
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, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].
He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
And, being assembled together with [them], commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith he], ye have heard of me.
And [there] abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what [they had] against him. Farewell.
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].
Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live [of the things] of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
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