Quotes About Patience

For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.í”

After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,

He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.

So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give him the interpretation.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.

But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.

But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”

Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.

For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”

Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”