'Keep Watch' in the Bible
And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.
Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.
And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.
Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;
So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:
And Joshua said, Let great stones be rolled against the mouth of the hole, and let men keep watch by it:
So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.
So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;
Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.
And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.
My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.
You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.
Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;
As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.
Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.
And he comes to the disciples, and sees that they are sleeping, and says to Peter, What, were you not able to keep watch with me one hour?
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.
It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.
So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;
And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.
And he came, and saw them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you sleeping? were you not able to keep watch one hour?
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.
And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.
So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.
Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.