I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
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.”
Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.
In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’ And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.
so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.
“So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”
And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.
In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
I wait for your salvation, O Lord.
And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
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.
O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
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.
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