⁹ For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.

40 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

¹⁸ And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

18 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;