16 Bible Verses about Wakefulness

{A song of the stairs} Except the LORD build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

The same night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the Chronicles and the stories: which when they were read before the king,

When I laid me down to sleep, I said, 'O when shall I rise?' Again, I longed sore for the night. Thus am I full of sorrow, till it be dark.

My flesh is clothed with worms, filthiness and dust; my skin is withered, and crumpled together;

My bones are pierced through in the night season, and my sinews take no rest.

A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much that he eateth; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

when the doors in the streets shall be shut, and when the voice of the miller shall be laid down; when men shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and when all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, had Nebuchadnezzar a dream, wherethrough his spirit was vexed, and his sleep brake from him.

So the king went in to his palace, and kept him sober all night, so that there was no table spread before him, neither could he take any sleep.

But betimes in the morning, at the break of the day, the king arose, and went in all haste unto the den of the Lions.

But as for thy dead men and ours, that be departed, they are in life and resurrection. They lie in the earth, they wake, and have joy: for thy dew is a dew of life and light. But the place of the malicious Tyrants is fallen away.

Awake, awake, and stand up, O Jerusalem: thou that from the hand of the LORD, hast drunken out the cup of his wrath; thou that hast supped of and sucked out the slumbering cup to the bottom.

Up, Zion, up: take thy strength unto thee. Put on thy honest raiment O Jerusalem, thou city of the holy one. For from this time forth, there shall no uncircumcised nor unclean person come in thee.

This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this unto your rebuke.

Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."