10 Bible Verses about Insomnia, Causes Of

This was my situation: by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep.

“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

For all his days his work is painful and sorrowful; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity (worthless).

On that night the king could not sleep; so he ordered that the book of records and memorable deeds, the chronicles, be brought, and they were read before the king.

Their land swarmed with frogs,
Even in the chambers of their kings.

In the second year (604 b.c.) of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams which troubled and disturbed his spirit and [interfered with] his ability to sleep.

My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.

Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no music or entertainment was brought before him, and he remained unable to sleep.

“As a slave earnestly longs for the shade,
And as a hired man eagerly awaits his wages,

So am I allotted months of futility and suffering,
And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.