Quotes about Expectation
When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
- Isaiah 64:3
“Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
- Isaiah 66:7
How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?
- Jeremiah 4:21
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 8:15
Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
- Jeremiah 13:12
After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,
- Jeremiah 42:7
At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 3:16
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
- Amos 5:18
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
- Haggai 1:9
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
- Haggai 2:16
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
- Matthew 7:10
to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
- Matthew 11:3