What does the Bible say about waiting?

Long waits, told without shortening them — twenty-five years, four hundred, seventy.

Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!Psalms 27:14

Wait for the LORD, and the instruction is repeated at the end of the same verse.

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.Isaiah 40:31

Those who wait will renew their strength — the promise is about the waiting, not its end.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.Genesis 21:5

Abraham was a hundred. The promise was made twenty-five years earlier.

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.Habakkuk 2:3

Though it linger, wait for it — said to a prophet who had complained.

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.Lamentations 3:26

It is good to wait quietly. Written by someone with nothing left.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.Luke 2:25

Simeon had been waiting for years, and the book gives him one page.

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Every passage here is quoted from the Berean Standard Bible and checked against it. The other topics.