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(page 1) Bible Verses About Wait
109 Scriptures on Wait

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

Job 14:14

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

Job 31:9

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

Job 32:16

Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

Job 35:14

How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

Job 38:40

when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

Job 6:11

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

Judges 16:2

[It was told] the Gazites, saying, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

Judges 21:20

They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

Judges 5:28

"Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother looked through the lattice. 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?'

Judges 6:18

Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you." He said, "I will wait until you come back."

Judges 9:32

Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

Judges 9:34

Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

Judges 9:43

He took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came forth out of the city; He rose up against them, and struck them.

Judith 13:3

Now Judith had commanded her maid to stand outside her bedroom and to wait for her to go forth, as she did daily; for she said she would go forth to her prayers, and she spoke to Bagoas towards the same purpose.

Judith 8:17

Therefore let us wait for salvation from him and call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it pleases him.

Lamentations 3:10

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Lamentations 3:25

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

Lamentations 3:26

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

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Luke 11:54

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Luke 24:49

Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."

Micah 5:7

The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, that don't wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

Micah 7:2

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Numbers 22:19

Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak to me more."

Numbers 35:20

If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

Numbers 35:22

"'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

Numbers 4:23

you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 8:24

"This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

Numbers 9:8

Moses answered them, "Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."

Philippians 3:20

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Proverbs 1:18

but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Proverbs 20:22

Don't say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.

Proverbs 23:28

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Proverbs 24:15

Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

Psalms 104:27

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

Psalms 106:13

They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,

Psalms 10:8

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Psalms 10:9

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

Psalms 130:5

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

Psalms 145:15

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

Psalms 25:21

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

Psalms 25:5

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Psalms 27:14

Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD. By David.

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