I wait for your salvation, O Lord.
I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight.
I hope for your salvation, O Lord, and I do your commandments.
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
for my eyes have seen your salvation
Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Show us your steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God.
Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us.
Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise;
For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
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