Waiting on the Lord
The theme of waiting in the Bible: hoping with patience, leaving the timing to God and trusting the dawn that follows the night. Key chapters from the psalms to the prophets.
Waiting is treated on many pages of the Bible as both a test and a school of trust. The chapters below voice, from different sources, a cry rising from the depths, the new strength promised to the weary and hoping with patience. Each link takes you straight to the reading page.
Read the chapters
- Psalms 130
A short psalm opening with a cry from the lowest depths, voicing a heartfelt waiting — trust in God for forgiveness, held with the patience of a watchman waiting for dawn.
- Psalms 27
A psalm of confidence opening with 'The LORD is my light and my salvation,' voicing trust to take refuge in God and wait for him even amid fear.
- Isaiah 40
A prophetic chapter of comfort and hope for a people in exile, promising renewed strength to the weary who put their hope in the Lord.
- Lamentations 3
A chapter of hope emerging at the very center of a book woven through with mourning, describing how, even in the darkness of great loss, one can hold to a mercy renewed each morning.
- Habakkuk 2
The chapter working through the answer to the prophet's questions about injustice — highlighting patient waiting and the principle that 'the righteous will live by his faith.'