Bible verses for waiting and unanswered prayer
You have asked, and asked again, and nothing has moved. Waiting is one of the hardest things the Bible asks of anyone, and it does not pretend otherwise.
“I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.”
Psalm 27:13-14 “I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word. My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.”
Psalm 130:5-6 “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 40:31 “For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries towards the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.”
Habakkuk 2:3 “The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”
Lamentations 3:25-26 “But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.”
Romans 8:25
Every verse on this page is from the World English Bible, British Edition, a modern translation in the public domain. Each one is copied exactly from the source, never retyped.
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