33 Bible Verses about awakening

See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

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.

Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.

And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.

You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.

Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.

These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.

And the angel who was talking to me came again, awaking me as a man out of his sleep.

If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you made me come up, troubling my rest? And Saul in answer said, I am in great danger; for the Philistines are making war on me, and God has gone away from me and will no longer give me any answer, by the prophets or by dreams: so I have sent for you to make clear to me what I am to do.

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

And Gehazi went on before them and put the stick on the child's face; but there was no voice, and no one gave attention. So he went back, and meeting him gave him the news, saying, The child is not awake.

So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise.

And they came to him, and, awaking him, said, Help, Lord; destruction is near.