37 Bible Verses about awakening

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it."

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.

Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.

Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow.Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.

Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him."

And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep.

if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.

Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us!

Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."

And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, "Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened."

so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.

Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him, "The child has not awakened."

So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody!

And they went and woke him, saying, "Save us, Lord; we are perishing."