It’s Hard to Wait on the Lord...in days like these.

Wait On The Lord

 

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 32 helpful votes

 

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 27:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Psalm 37:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

Micah 7:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

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

Lamentations 3:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes

 

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Psalm 27:13-14 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Hosea 12:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”

Isaiah 64:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

 

From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

Psalm 130:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;

Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 25:4-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

 

Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

John 14:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Psalm 130:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

Psalm 27:1-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. ...

Psalm 25:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Isaiah 25:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Psalm 33:18-22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.

Psalm 27:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!

Psalm 25:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

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

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Isaiah 49:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”

Isaiah 26:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 106:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

Psalm 62:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.

Psalm 37:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Wait for the Lord and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.

Psalm 37:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

Psalm 25:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

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

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 8:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Psalm 39:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

Revelation 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

Revelation 18:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;

Hebrews 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 13:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

John 12:1-50 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” ...

John 6:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 18:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Mark 14:1-72 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. ...

Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

2 Kings 22:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the Lord, saying, “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people. And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the Lord, repairing the house ...

1 Samuel 3:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called Samuel, and he said, “Here I am!” and ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down. ...