37 Bible Verses about awakening

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.

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

That they may lead thee where thou goest, preserve thee when thou art asleep, and that when thou awakest, thou mayest talk of them.

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.

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

I laid me down and slept, and rose up again; for the LORD sustained me.

When Jacob was awaked out of his sleep, he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware."

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye wake not up my love, nor touch her, till she be content herself. What is she, this that cometh up from the wilderness, and leaneth upon her love?

When I heard this, I came again to myself, and mused, like as I had been waked out of a sweet sleep.

Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Behold, there shall come a people from the North, and a great people shall arise from the ends of the earth;

Awake, O my glory; awake lute and harp. I myself will awake right early.

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

Wake up, wake up, and be strong: O thou arm of the LORD: wake up, like as in times past, ever, and since the world began.

The LORD God hath given me a well learned tongue, so that I can comfort them which are troubled; yea, and that in due season. He waked mine ear up betimes in the morning, as schoolmasters do; that I might hark.

So the LORD awakened as one out of sleep, and like a giant refreshed with wine.

Woe unto him, that sayeth unto a piece of wood, "Arise," and to a dumb stone, "Stand up." For what instruction may such one give? Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.

Up thou North wind, come thou South wind, and blow upon my garden, that the smell thereof may be carried on every side: yea, that my beloved may come into my garden, and eat of the fruits and apples that grow therein.

Awake lute and harp! I myself will awake right early.

This said he. And after that he said unto them, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go to wake him out of sleep."

And the angel that talked with me, came again; and waked me up, as a man that is raised out of his sleep,

If thou wouldest live a pure and godly life; should he not wake up unto thee immediately, and give thee the beauty of righteousness again?

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.

For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.

Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

How long wilt thou sleep, thou sluggish man? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing. O my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever.

O how suddenly will they stand up, that shall bite thee, and awake, that shall tear thee in pieces? Yea, thou shalt be their prey.

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh; stir up thy power, and come help us.

And Samuel said to Saul, "Why hast thou unquieted me, to make me be brought up?" And Saul answered, "I am sore encumbered. For the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me and answered me no more, neither by prophets, neither by dreams. And therefore have I called thee, to tell me what I shall do."

And at noon Elijah mocked them, and said, "Call loud, for he is a god: but he is talking, or occupied, or in the way, or haply he sleepeth, that he may awake!"

but when man sleepeth, he riseth not again, until the heaven perish: he shall not wake up nor rise out of his sleep.

Gehazi went before them and put the staff upon the lad. But there was neither voice nor attending. And then he went again against his master and told him saying, "It hath not awaked the lad."

Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.

Let the people arise, and get them to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit, and judge all Heathen round about.

My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready; I will sing and give praise.

And his Disciples came unto him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, save us: we perish."