16 Bible Verses about Wakefulness
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Unless LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless LORD guards the city, the watchman wake but 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, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
and the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low,
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. And his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting, nor were instruments of music brought before him. And his sleep fled from him.
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.
Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in the dust, for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of LORD the cup of his wrath. Thou have drunk the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion. Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.
Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will 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 henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of LORD the cup of his wrath. Thou have drunk the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in the dust, for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
