Waking Up

wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep? — read the full passage →

Awake, mine honour, awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the morning dawn.

The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary <FI>by<Fi> a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already <FI>is<Fi> to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer <FI>is<Fi> our salvation than when we did believe;

Jehovah, <FI>at<Fi> morning Thou hearest my voice, <FI>At<Fi> morning I set in array for Thee, And I look out.

And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes--be satisfied <FI>with<Fi> bread.

Awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the dawn.

Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul.

watch ye, therefore, for ye have not known when the lord of the house doth come, at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at the morning; — read the full passage →

I--in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, <FI>with<Fi> Thy form!

And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, `What--to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'

Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee.

I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

My beloved hath answered and said to me, `Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,

`Thy dead live--My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs <FI>is<Fi> thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.

Satisfy us at morn <FI>with<Fi> Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

I--I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

continually pray ye;

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;' — read the full passage →

all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness, — read the full passage →

awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say <FI>it<Fi> .

henceforth, there shall be the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God.'

all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness, — read the full passage →

On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.

Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.

whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered <FI>him<Fi> to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

but Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep, and having waked, they saw his glory, and the two men standing with him.

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace--to you;'

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

A little sleep--a little slumber--A little folding of the hands to lie down. — read the full passage →

And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;'

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already <FI>is<Fi> to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer <FI>is<Fi> our salvation than when we did believe; — read the full passage →

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?' — read the full passage →

and he said to them, `And ye--who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering said, `The Christ of God.'

The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies. — read the full passage →

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem--the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.

I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled <FI>with<Fi> dew, My locks <FI>with<Fi> drops of the night.'

Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

Prepared is my heart, O God, Prepared is my heart, I sing and praise. — read the full passage →

and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.

And it cometh to pass, at king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons; — read the full passage →

and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.'

The door turneth round on its hinge, And the slothful on his bed.

In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked--it talketh <FI>with<Fi> thee.

Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep? — read the full passage →

I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou <FI>art<Fi> , I to-day have brought thee forth.

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, — read the full passage →

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon <FI>him<Fi> ,

and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death--with strong crying and tears--having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?

because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,

The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said--`This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;'

`If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;

and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace--to you;' — read the full passage →

for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

the <FI>son<Fi> of Cainan, the <FI>son<Fi> of Enos, the <FI>son<Fi> of Seth, the <FI>son<Fi> of Adam, the <FI>son<Fi> of God.

for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum! — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked. — read the full passage →

I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.

I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped. — read the full passage →

Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place? — read the full passage →

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication, — read the full passage →

And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?

If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

he doth build a house to My name, and he is to Me for a son, and I <FI>am<Fi> to him for a father, and I have established the throne of his kingdom over Israel unto the age.

and the king taketh the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul whom she bare to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite,

and David captureth from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David destroyeth utterly the whole of the charioteers, only he leaveth of them a hundred charioteers.

I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,

As to Michal daughter of Saul, she had no child till the day of her death.

and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born <FI>is<Fi> Israel,

and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,