Quotes About Patience

The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.

For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”

The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

If the cloud was not lifted, they would not set out until the day it was taken up.

When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.

They placed him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth yearís harvest comes in.

“Wait here until I find out what the LORD commands concerning you,” Moses replied.

Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORDís charge and did not set out.

Whether the cloud lingered for two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it was lifted, they would set out.

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.

“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.

So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.

The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

After three days the officers went through the camp

But Joshua had commanded the people: “Do not give a battle cry or let your voice be heard; do not let one word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you are to shout!”