Bible Verses About Night Vigil

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

I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.

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

Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.

Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,

And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

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

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

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

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

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.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.