16 Bible Verses about Wakefulness
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If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,
When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;
In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.
Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no ... were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.
Then very early in the morning the king got up and went quickly to the lions' hole.
Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.
Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
From Thematic Bible
Wakefulness » Common causes of » Exhortations to moral and spiritual
Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.
Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
