16 Bible Verses about Wakefulness
Most Relevant Verses
Unless the LORD builds the house, they labour in vain that build it; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchmen watch in vain.
On that night the king could not sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? I measure the night, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and abominable.
The sleep of the servant is sweet whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
and the doors outside shall be shut because the voice of the grinder is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of song shall be humbled;
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, with which his spirit was troubled, and his sleep fled from him.
Then the king went to his palace and lay down without eating; neither were instruments of music brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.
Therefore, the king arose very early in the morning at dawn and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Thy dead shall live, and together with my body they shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the covering of light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out.
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come into thee.
And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awaken ourselves out of sleep, for now is our saving health nearer than when we believed.
Watch diligently, and sin not; for some do not know God: I speak this to your shame.
Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
From Thematic Bible
Wakefulness » Common causes of » Exhortations to moral and spiritual
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come into thee.
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out.
Thy dead shall live, and together with my body they shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the covering of light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
Watch diligently, and sin not; for some do not know God: I speak this to your shame.
