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Bible Verses About deep sleep

This collection includes 50 passages about deep sleep. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

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Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.

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When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

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Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.

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So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.

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Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

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And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.

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I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

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So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

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For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

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I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.

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Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

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Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

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How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

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For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

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In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

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Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

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Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

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And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

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And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

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And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

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And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?

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He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

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In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.

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So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

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And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

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For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

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Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

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It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

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Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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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.

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So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.

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