Quotes about Sleep
When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.
- Proverbs 3:24
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- Proverbs 4:16
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
- Proverbs 19:15
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
- Proverbs 20:13
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
- Ecclesiastes 5:12
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
- Ecclesiastes 8:16
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- Song of Solomon 5:2
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
- Isaiah 29:10
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
- Jeremiah 31:26
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:39
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 51:57
I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
- Ezekiel 34:25