Quotes about Expectation
“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
— Exodus 19:15
Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”
— Joshua 3:5
And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.
— 1 Samuel 13:8
But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
— 1 Samuel 20:27
And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
— 2 Samuel 11:5
See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”
— 2 Samuel 15:28
“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.
— 1 Kings 2:15
Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
— 2 Kings 4:28
But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.
— 2 Kings 5:11
They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.
— Job 6:20
Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.
— Job 29:21
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
— Job 29:23