98 Bible Verses about Night

“I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” So Samuel became angry and cried out to the Lord all night.

I complain and groan morning, noon, and night,
and He hears my voice.

I rise at midnight to thank You
for Your righteous judgments.

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

During those days He went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God.

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Night will no longer exist, and people will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.

It was a night of vigil in honor of the Lord, because He would bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is in honor of the Lord, a night vigil for all the Israelites throughout their generations.

The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions. During the morning watch, they invaded the Ammonite camp and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. There were survivors, but they were so scattered that no two of them were left together.

Then during the morning watch, the Lord looked down on the Egyptian forces from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw them into confusion.

Bakbukiah, Unni, and their relatives stood opposite them in the services.

ק QofArise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.

Around three in the morning, He came toward them walking on the sea.

The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

Night will no longer exist, and people will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.

Each day its gates will never close because it will never be night there.

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

That night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said.

And Jacob replied, “Here I am.”

But the donkey said, “Am I not the donkey you’ve ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?”

“No,” he replied.

Daniel said, “In my vision at night I was watching, and suddenly the four winds of heaven stirred up the great sea.

That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,

“I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am Yahweh; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.

Terrors overtake him like a flood;
a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

An oracle against Moab:

Ar in Moab is devastated,
destroyed in a night.
Kir in Moab is devastated,
destroyed in a night.

The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

An oracle against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, "Watchman, what is [left] of the night? Watchman, what is [left] of the night?" The watchman said, "Morning has come, and also night. If you want to ask, ask! Come back again."

Then during the morning watch, the Lord looked down on the Egyptian forces from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw them into confusion.

ק QofArise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.

Gideon and the 100 men who were with him went to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch after the sentries had been stationed. They blew their trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

That night God did as Gideon requested: only the fleece was dry, and dew was all over the ground.

Around three in the morning, He came toward them walking on the sea.

If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed.

Therefore be alert, since you don’t know when the master of the house is coming—whether in the evening or at midnight or at the crowing of the rooster or early in the morning.

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the tomb.

The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.

Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb at sunrise.

God called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” Evening came and then morning: the first day.

Day after day they pour out speech;
night after night they communicate knowledge.

A song of ascents.Now praise the Lord,
all you servants of the Lord
who stand in the Lord’s house at night!

For His anger lasts only a moment,
but His favor, a lifetime.
Weeping may spend the night,
but there is joy in the morning.

I am weary from my groaning;
with my tears I dampen my pillow
and drench my bed every night.

Dress in sackcloth and lament, you priests;
wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come and spend the night in sackcloth,
you ministers of my God,
because grain and drink offerings
are withheld from the house of your God.

This is what the Lord says:

The One who gives the sun for light by day,
the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar—
Yahweh of Hosts is His name:

God made the two great lights-the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light to have dominion over the night-as well as the stars. God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth, to dominate the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest until the rain poured down from heaven on the bodies. She kept the birds of the sky from them by day and the wild animals by night.

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God. The sun rises; they go back and lie down in their dens.

Day after day they pour out speech;
night after night they communicate knowledge.

At night I remember my music;
I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.

I am awake through each watch of the night
to meditate on Your promise.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”—

There I was—the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his corpse will be thrown out to be exposed to the heat of day and the frost of night.

As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, and day and night
will not cease.”

“This is what the Lord says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time,

I did not bring you any of the flock torn by wild beasts; I myself bore the loss. You demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or by night.

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and by night he becomes a thief. The adulterer's eye watches for twilight, thinking: No eye will see me, he covers [his] face.

You have tested my heart;
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.

At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask. What should I give you?”

There I was—the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock.

The One who made the Pleiades and Orion,
who turns darkness into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who summons the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the earth—
Yahweh is His name.

The watchman said,
“Morning has come, and also night.
If you want to ask, ask!
Come back again.”

In my bed at night
I sought the one I love;
I sought him, but did not find him.

“Master,” Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing! But at Your word, I’ll let down the nets.”

“I’m going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.

“We’re coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

“You must not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired hand must not remain with you until morning.

She sees that her profits are good,
and her lamp never goes out at night.

Night will no longer exist, and people will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.

Each day its gates will never close because it will never be night there.

He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.

The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

at twilight, in the evening,
in the dark of the night.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for festivals and for days and years.

Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.

You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.

God called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” Evening came and then morning: the first day.

The day is Yours, also the night;
You established the moon and the sun.

Day after day they pour out speech;
night after night they communicate knowledge.

My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,
by night, yet I have no rest.

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me. When I lie down I think: When will I get up? But the evening drags on endlessly, and I toss and turn until dawn.

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

He summoned two of his centurions and said, “Get 200 soldiers ready with 70 cavalry and 200 spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight.

A song of ascents.Now praise the Lord,
all you servants of the Lord
who stand in the Lord’s house at night!

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

During those days He went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God.

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Night will no longer exist, and people will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.

Night will no longer exist, and people will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.