98 Bible Verses about Night
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.read more.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young woman's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow get you early on your way, that you may go home.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he came upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Therefore you shall say this word unto them; Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is smitten with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.
Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may hear the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you now, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you: both I and my father's house have sinned.
[A Song or Psalm for the Sons of Karah. To the Chief Musician upon mahanath leannoth. A maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night unto him, though he bears long with them?
Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
And the four living creatures had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.
And these are the singers, heads of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free from other service: for they were employed in that work day and night.
For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be a burden unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you:
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
Watch you therefore: for you know not when the Master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning:
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
He then having received the morsel went immediately out: and it was night.
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
When I was daily with you in the temple, you stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunk are drunk in the night.
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes. While you have light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
For you were once darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord does come. But know this, that if the owner of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man comes.
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands asunder.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed wet with tears; I water my couch with my tears.
For his anger endures but for a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, you have searched me, and known me. You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off.
Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the hollow; and behind him there were red, speckled, and white horses.
Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not your peace:
And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as you have testified of me in Jerusalem, so must you bear witness also at Rome.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are but a dead man, for the woman that you have taken; for she is a man's wife.
And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give you.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
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Devotional life » Night » Prayer » All Night Prayers » samuel
It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Devotional life » Prayer » Night » All Night Prayers » Christ
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Devotional life » Night » All Night Prayers » jacob
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Family Joy » Future » Maternal and paternal love » Night
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.
Israel » Journey » Night
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed by all the children of Israel in their generations.
Night » Divided into watches
And it was so the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they who remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
Night » Type of ignorance and sin
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in
And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
And the donkey said unto Balaam, Am not I your donkey, upon which you have ridden ever since I became yours unto this day? was I ever accustomed to do so unto you? And he said, Nay.
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.
Night » Used figuratively
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
The burden concerning Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
The burden concerning Dumah. He calls to me from Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if you will inquire, inquire you: return, come.
Night » Originally divided into three watches
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews
And it was so: for he rose up early the next day, and squeezed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
Night » Divided into four watches by the romans
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Watch you therefore: for you know not when the Master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning:
Night » Continued until sunrise
At the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.
The sun arises, they gather themselves together, and lay themselves down in their dens.
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun.
Night » General references to the natural
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
[A song of ascents.] Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation
For his anger endures but for a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed wet with tears; I water my couch with my tears.
Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: wail, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.
Night » The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Night » Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and allowed neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. The sun arises, they gather themselves together, and lay themselves down in their dens.
Night » Meditations in
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
My eyes awake before the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty
Thus I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
Therefore thus says the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Thus says the LORD; if you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto you; I bore the loss of it; of my hand did you require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.
Night » God frequently » Visited his people in
You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give you.
Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during
Thus I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities
Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if you will inquire, inquire you: return, come.
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during
And Simon answering said unto him, Teacher, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at your word I will let down the net.
Simon Peter said unto them, I am going fishing. They said unto him, We also will go with you. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
Night » The jews » Forbidden to allow malefactors to hang during
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
Night » The jews » Forbidden to keep the wages of servants during
You shall not defraud your neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with you all night until the morning.
Night » The jews » Often kept lamps burning during
She perceives that her merchandise is good: her lamp goes not out by night.
Night » No night in heaven
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Night » Commenced at sunset
And he came upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Night » Illustrative of » Spiritual darkness
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
Night » Frequently » Exceeding dark
Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Night » Designed for rest
Night » Caused by God
You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Night » The darkness first called
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Night » Belongs to God
Night » Regular succession of » Ordained for the glory of God
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Night » Unsuitable for travelling
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.
Night » Wearisome to the afflicted
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Night » Illustrative of » death
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
Night » Divided into hours
And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
Night » Worship in
[A song of ascents.] Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Night » Unsuitable for labor
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
Night » Jesus prays all night
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Prayer » Night » All Night Prayers » jacob
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
the seven No mores » No more » Night
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.
the future » No more » Night
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.
Topics on Night
Acting All Night
Exodus 27:21In the tabernacle of meeting outside the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute forever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Affliction Day And Night
Psalm 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
All Night Prayers
Luke 6:12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Day Or Night
Psalm 1:2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
During One Night
Acts 18:9Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not your peace:
Labour Day And Night
1 Thessalonians 2:9For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be a burden unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Protection Day And Night
1 Samuel 25:16They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
Provision Of Day And Night
Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Provision Of Night
Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Spiritual Night
1 Thessalonians 5:5You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Three Days And Nights
Jonah 1:17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Visions At Night
Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Walking All Night
1 Samuel 31:12All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
Worship Day And Night
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.