Quotes about Vigilance
Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
- Proverbs 4:23
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
- Proverbs 6:4
Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
- Proverbs 7:12
Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.
- Proverbs 24:15
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
- Proverbs 31:27
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
- Song of Solomon 5:7
None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
- Isaiah 5:27
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
- Isaiah 21:6
When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
- Isaiah 21:7
Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
- Isaiah 32:11
Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion.
- Isaiah 52:8
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
- Isaiah 62:6