Job 23:9

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.

He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.

You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help. Hurry to help me!

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that my wrath will come up into my nostrils.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

for our God is a consuming fire.