31 Bible Verses about Sleeping Peacefully
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In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!
If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.
I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.
And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.
Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.
On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.
Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.
'And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into your land.
He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, Each is going straightforward.
and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,
The fear of Jehovah is to life, And satisfied he remaineth -- he is not charged with evil.
And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests.
and thou -- thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;
And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.
for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,
And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.
leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.
and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, 'Rise in haste,' and his chains fell from off his hands.
The watchman hath said, 'Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'
And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'
And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.
Thou hast given joy in my heart, From the time their corn and their wine Have been multiplied.
Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent -- dust is its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!
(For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,
'Lo, a son is born to thee; he is a man of rest, and I have given rest to him from all his enemies round about, for Solomon is his name, and peace and quietness I give unto Israel in his days;
