'Sleep' in the Bible
In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; for thou, Jehovah, alone makest me to dwell in safety.
Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
The stout-hearted are made a spoil, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
Behold, he that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine eyelids,
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