14 Bible Verses about All Night Prayers

Now at this time Jesus went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

So Jacob was left alone, and a Man [came and] wrestled with him until daybreak.

“I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My commands.” Samuel was angry [over Saul’s failure] and he cried out to the Lord all night.

Evening and morning and at noon I will complain and murmur,
And He will hear my voice.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You
Because of Your righteous ordinances.

But about midnight when Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,

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

O Lord, I remember Your name in the night,
And keep Your law.

Behold, bless and praise the Lord, all servants of the Lord (priests, Levites),
Who stand and serve by night in the house of the Lord.

“Arise, cry aloud in the night,
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint from hunger
At the head of every street.”

David therefore appealed to God for the child [to be healed]; and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may endure for a night,
But a shout of joy comes in the morning.

Clothe yourselves with sackcloth
And lament (cry out in grief), O priests;
Wail, O ministers of the altar!
Come, spend the night in sackcloth [and pray without ceasing],
O ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.