Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
The 1611 reading
Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercie and iudgement, and wait on thy God continually.
KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To remain in expectation or readiness. Sense 2: To attend or serve. Sense 3: As a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Exodus 21:13
Complete exact-word concordance
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercie and iudgement, and wait on thy God continually.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none vpright among men: they all lie in waite for blood: they hunt euery man his brother with a net.
1611 marginal noteOr, godly, or mercifull.
1611 marginal notePsal.12.3. isai.57.1.
Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Therefore I will looke vnto you the LORD: I will waite for the God of my saluation: my God will heare me.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tary, wait for it, because it will surely come, it wil not tary.
1611 marginal noteHebr.10.37.
¶ Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
¶ Therefore waite ye vpon mee, sayth the LORD, vntill the day that I rise vp to the pray: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdomes to powre vpon them mine indignation, euen all my fierce anger: for all the earth shalbe deuoured with the fire of my iealousie.
1611 marginal noteChap.1.18.
And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
And he spake to his disciples that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their Lord, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediately.
And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Hierusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye haue heard of me.
1611 marginal noteOr, eating together with them.
1611 marginal noteLuke 24.49.
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
And there abode three moneths: and when the Iewes layed waite for him, as hee was about to saile into Syria, hee purposed to returne thorow Macedonia.
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Historical English dictionary sources
an ambush.