And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be (q) gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of
(r) judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.
(q) He commends the great mercies of God, who with patience waits to call sinners to repentance.
(r) Not only in punishing but in using moderation in the same, as in (Jeremiah 10:24; Jeremiah 30:11).