16 Bible Verses about Wakefulness
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[A song of ascents. Of Solomon.] Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes, but in vain.
On that night the king could not sleep, and he commanded to be brought 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 tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, by which his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for no longer, there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
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Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for no longer, there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
