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And therefore will the Lordo 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: blessedp are all they that wait for him.

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Hos. 5:15• ¹⁵I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. (Hos. 5:15)

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Psa. 34:8• ⁸O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. (Psa. 34:8)

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therefore.

Isa. 55:8• ⁸For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. (Isa. 55:8)

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Ex. 34:6• ⁶And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, (Ex. 34:6)

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Hos. 2:14• ¹⁴Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. (Hos. 2:14)

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Rom. 5:20• ²⁰Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: (Rom. 5:20)

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Rom. 9:15‑18• ¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
¹⁷For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
¹⁸Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. (Rom. 9:15‑18)

wait.

Isa. 18:4• ⁴For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. (Isa. 18:4)

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Isa. 57:17‑18• ¹⁷For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
¹⁸I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. (Isa. 57:17‑18)

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Jer. 31:18‑20• ¹⁸I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
²⁰Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord. (Jer. 31:18‑20)

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Hos. 5:15• ¹⁵I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. (Hos. 5:15)

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Hos. 6:1‑2• ¹Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
²After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (Hos. 6:1‑2)

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Hos. 11:8‑9• ⁸How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
⁹I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. (Hos. 11:8‑9)

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Jonah 3:4‑10• ⁴And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
⁵So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
⁶For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
⁷And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
⁸But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
⁹Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
¹⁰And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. (Jonah 3:4‑10)

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Matt. 15:22‑28• ²²And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
²³But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
²⁴But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
²⁵Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
²⁶But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
²⁷And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
²⁸Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. (Matt. 15:22‑28)

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Luke 15:20• ²⁰And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. (Luke 15:20)

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Rom. 9:22• ²²What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: (Rom. 9:22)

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2 Peter 3:9,15• ⁹The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
¹⁵And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; (2 Peter 3:9,15)

will he be.

Isa. 33:10‑12• ¹⁰Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
¹¹Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
¹²And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. (Isa. 33:10‑12)

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Psa. 46:10‑11• ¹⁰Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
¹¹The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. (Psa. 46:10‑11)

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Psa. 76:5‑10• ⁵The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
⁶At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
⁷Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
⁸Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
⁹When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
¹⁰Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. (Psa. 76:5‑10)

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Luke 24:26‑27• ²⁶Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
²⁷And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:26‑27)

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Acts 2:33‑39• ³³Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
³⁴For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
³⁵Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
³⁶Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
³⁷Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
³⁹For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:33‑39)

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Acts 5:31• ³¹Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. (Acts 5:31)

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Eph. 1:6,20‑23• ⁶To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
²⁰Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
²¹Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
²²And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
²³Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. (Eph. 1:6,20‑23)

for the Lord.

Isa. 33:5• ⁵The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. (Isa. 33:5)

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Isa. 42:1‑4• ¹Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
²He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
³A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
⁴He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. (Isa. 42:1‑4)

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Deut. 32:4• ⁴He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)

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1 Sam. 2:3• ³Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. (1 Sam. 2:3)

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Job 35:14• ¹⁴Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. (Job 35:14)

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Psa. 99:4• ⁴The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. (Psa. 99:4)

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Jer. 10:24‑25• ²⁴O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
²⁵Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. (Jer. 10:24‑25)

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Mic. 7:18‑20• ¹⁸Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
¹⁹He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
²⁰Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. (Mic. 7:18‑20)

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Mal. 2:17• ¹⁷Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)

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Rom. 2:2‑10• ²But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
³And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
⁴Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
⁵But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
⁶Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
⁷To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
⁸But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
⁹Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
¹⁰But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: (Rom. 2:2‑10)

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Eph. 1:8• ⁸Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; (Eph. 1:8)

blessed.

Isa. 8:17• ¹⁷And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. (Isa. 8:17)

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Isa. 25:9• ⁹And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. (Isa. 25:9)

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Isa. 26:7‑8• ⁷The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
⁸Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. (Isa. 26:7‑8)

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Isa. 40:31• ³¹But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isa. 40:31)

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Psa. 2:12• ¹²Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (Psa. 2:12)

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Psa. 27:14• ¹⁴Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. (Psa. 27:14)

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Psa. 28:6‑7• ⁶Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. (Psa. 28:6‑7)

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Psa. 34:8• ⁸O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. (Psa. 34:8)

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Psa. 40:1‑3• ¹<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
²He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
³And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. (Psa. 40:1‑3)

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Psa. 62:1‑2,5‑8• ¹<<To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.>> Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
²He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
⁵My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
⁶He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
⁷In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
⁸Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. (Psa. 62:1‑2,5‑8)

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Psa. 84:12• ¹²O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. (Psa. 84:12)

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Prov. 16:20• ²⁰He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. (Prov. 16:20)

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Jer. 17:7• ⁷Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. (Jer. 17:7)

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Lam. 3:25‑26• ²⁵The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. (Lam. 3:25‑26)

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Mic. 7:7‑9• ⁷Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
⁸Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
⁹I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. (Mic. 7:7‑9)

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Luke 2:25• ²⁵And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. (Luke 2:25)

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Rom. 8:25‑28• ²⁵But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
²⁷And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Rom. 8:25‑28)

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James 5:11• ¹¹Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. (James 5:11)

• In verse 18 of our chapter a different note is sounded, which continues to the end. The Lord speaks of mercy that shall yet be shown to them, since He delights in it. Just when everything seems lost, and they are left as a lonely “beacon upon the top of a mountain,” mercy will be shown; and as we read these verses (18-33) we see that though the Lord will afflict them in His holy government, yet He will ultimately guide them. (“Isaiah 30” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may have mercyg upon you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

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Or "will he withdraw himself until he have mercy."