I will wait at the fords in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

David and Ziba

When David had gone a short distance beyond the summit, there was Ziba, the steward of Mephibosheth, waiting to meet him. He had a string of donkeys saddled and loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs and a skin of wine.

Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this for you.” So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom’s heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.

The king said, “Stand aside and wait here.” So he stepped aside and stood there.

The woman was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no sexual relations with her.

Then the prophet went and stood by the road waiting for the king. He disguised himself with his headband down over his eyes.

While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him. The king said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

Then they said to each other, “What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”

May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,

If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

“People listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence for my counsel.

They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain.

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.

I waited while you spoke, I listened to your reasoning; while you were searching for words,

Must I wait, now that they are silent, now that they stand there with no reply?

How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,

when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?

In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.

He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he murders the innocent. His eyes watch in secret for his victims;

like a lion in cover he lies in wait. He lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.