It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.


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Ecclesiastes 2 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Proverbs 20 13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
1 Samuel 29 10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
Isaiah 5 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Job 7 4 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.
Job 14 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Proverbs 6 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Micah 2 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Psalms 130 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Job 4 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
John 11 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
Psalms 44 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
1 Thessalonians 4 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Luke 22 46 And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
1 Thessalonians 5 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Luke 22 45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
1 Thessalonians 4 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Job 24 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Romans 13 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Genesis 19 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Proverbs 10 5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Ruth 3 13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.
Song of Solomon 5 2 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.
Job 33 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Ezekiel 7 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
Job 38 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
Proverbs 19 15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Psalms 57 8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Psalms 39 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Judges 19 9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
Isaiah 29 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isaiah 47 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Psalms 127 1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Psalms 5 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Isaiah 26 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Isaiah 50 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Psalms 89 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Psalms 78 65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Ephesians 5 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Psalms 92 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
Proverbs 3 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Psalms 121 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Micah 7 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
2 Samuel 19 7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
Ecclesiastes 5 12 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.
Judges 9 32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Ecclesiastes 11 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
Isaiah 5 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
Mark 2 11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
Psalms 42 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.