37 Bible Verses About Sleep

The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

And the Lord called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.

As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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

And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.

For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

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.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

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

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.

And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

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

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

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.

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

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.

Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

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.

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