Exodus 24:14

He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."

Ezekiel 19:5

Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

Galatians 5:5

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

Genesis 34:19

The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

Genesis 45:9

Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

Genesis 49:18

I have waited for your salvation, the LORD.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.



Habakkuk 3:16

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Hebrews 10:13

from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

Hebrews 10:37

"In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

Hosea 6:9

As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

Hosea 7:6

For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Hosea 12:6

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



Isaiah 8:17

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

Isaiah 25:9

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!"

Isaiah 26:8

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.

Isaiah 30:18

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.

Isaiah 33:2

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

Isaiah 38:13

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

Isaiah 40:31

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.



Isaiah 42:4

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

Isaiah 46:13

I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Isaiah 49:23

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."

Isaiah 51:5

My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.

Isaiah 60:9

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.

Isaiah 64:4

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.

James 5:7

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.



Jeremiah 4:6

Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don't wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction."

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.

Jeremiah 14:22

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.

Job 6:11

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

Job 6:19

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

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 15:22

He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

Job 24:15

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

Job 29:21

"Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

Job 29:23

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

Job 31:9

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

Job 32:4

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

Job 32:11

"Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

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?

John 5:3

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

Judges 3:25

They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

Judges 3:26

Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.

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.

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 16:9

Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

Judges 16:12

So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

Judges 21:20

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

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 1:21

The people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.

Luke 8:40

It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

Luke 11:54

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

Luke 23:51

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:

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 1:12

For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

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.

Nehemiah 12:44

On that day were men appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.

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 8:25

and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,

Numbers 9:8

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

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,

Obadiah 1:5

"If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?

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 8:34

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

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:

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

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 25:3

Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

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 25:21

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

Psalms 27:14

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

Psalms 33:20

Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

Psalms 37:7

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.


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