16 Bible Verses about Wakefulness

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.

That night sleep escaped the king, so he ordered the book recording daily events to be brought and read to the king.

When I lie down I think:
When will I get up?
But the evening drags on endlessly,
and I toss and turn until dawn.

My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt.
My skin forms scabs and then oozes.

Night pierces my bones,
but my gnawing pains never rest.

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.

the doors at the street are shut
while the sound of the mill fades;
when one rises at the sound of a bird,
and all the daughters of song grow faint.

In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled him, and sleep deserted him.

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No diversions were brought to him, and he could not sleep.

At the first light of dawn the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den.

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!
For you will be covered with the morning dew,
and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.

Wake yourself, wake yourself up!
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk the cup of His fury
from the hand of the Lord;
you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that causes people to stagger.

“Wake up, wake up;
put on your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
Jerusalem, the Holy City!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.

Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.