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Bible Verses About Sleep
Can't sleep? These KJV verses promise rest, peace, and God's watch over you through the night.
Most Powerful Verses
Job 33:15
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;”
— King James Version
Psalms 63:6
“When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.”
— King James Version
Isaiah 56:10
“His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.”
— King James Version
Genesis 28:11
“And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.”
— King James Version
Genesis 31:40
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
— King James Version
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Ruth 3:13
“Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, the...”
1 Samuel 19:11
“Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.”
1 Samuel 26:7
“So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.”
2 Samuel 4:7
“For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.”
2 Samuel 21:10
“And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the ai...”
Nehemiah 4:9
“Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.”
Esther 6:1
“On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.”
Job 4:13
“In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,”
Job 7:4
“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.”
Job 14:16
“For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?”
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Job 30:17 — “My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest....”
Psalms 6:6 — “I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears....”
Psalms 22:2 — “O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent....”
Psalms 90:4 — “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night....”
Psalms 104:20 — “Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth....”
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