For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies.
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."
The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."
Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that the LORD had departed from him.
But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.
All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep. She isn't dead, but sleeping."
Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.
When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,
and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.
He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"
When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour?
Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him.
He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;
Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.
He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?
He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;
In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, the LORD alone, make me live in safety. For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.
Behold, and answer me, the LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."
Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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