Quotes about Delay

Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.

So Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you put off entering and possessing the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?

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.

If they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.

Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.