98 Bible Verses about Night
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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it was so. And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, and the stars.read more.
And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth, and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day has waned toward evening; pray tarry all night. Behold, the day draws to its close; lodge here and let your heart be merry; and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home."
I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world; but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.
And he lighted on a certain place, and lodged there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and made it his pillow, and lay down in that place.
My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
And thou shalt say this word unto them: Let mine eyes run down with tears, night and day, and not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
{A Song, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. An instruction. Of Heman the Ezrahite.} Jehovah, God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.
And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?
night and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may see your face, and perfect what is lacking in your faith?
This book of the law shall not depart from thy mouth; and thou shalt meditate upon it day and night, that thou mayest take heed to do according to all that is written therein; for then shalt thou have good success in thy ways, and then shalt thou prosper.
But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;
to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of the Jews.
And the four living creatures, each one of them having respectively six wings; round and within they are full of eyes; and they cease not day and night saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.
And these were the singers, chief fathers of the Levites, who were in the chambers free from service; for they were employed day and night.
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.
nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:
Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.
And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked upon the camp of the Egyptians, in the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and embarrassed the camp of the Egyptians.
Watch therefore, for ye do not know when the master of the house comes: evening, or midnight, or cock-crow, or morning;
But in the fourth watch of the night he went off to them, walking on the sea.
And seeing them labouring in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.
And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find them thus, blessed are those bondmen.
Having therefore received the morsel, he went out immediately; and it was night.
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
When I was day by day with you in the temple ye did not stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness.
So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God.
from those who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a gleaning? If thieves by night, they would destroy only till they had enough.
for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.
Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may become sons of light. Jesus said these things, and going away hid himself from them.
The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,
who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:
Watch therefore, for ye know not in what hour your Lord comes. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be dug through into. Wherefore ye also, be ye ready, for in that hour that ye think not the Son of man comes.
lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. But what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.
Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses; He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.
the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them light hath shone.
Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
For a moment is passed in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned away from following me, and hath not fulfilled my words. And Samuel was much grieved; and he cried to Jehovah all night.
My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:
And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.
In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life.
I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search.
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;
Let the godly exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Then Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: I have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen for myself this place for a house of sacrifice.
Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of the heavens.
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heavens broke forth upon the great sea.
I saw by night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the low valley; and behind him were red, bay, and white horses.
But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome also.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman that thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
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It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned away from following me, and hath not fulfilled my words. And Samuel was much grieved; and he cried to Jehovah all night.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice.
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And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
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And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and light of the sun; for the Lord God shall shine upon them, and they shall reign to the ages of ages.
Israel » Journey » Night
It is a night of observance to Jehovah, because of their being brought out from the land of Egypt: that same night is an observance to Jehovah for all the children of Israel in their generations.
Night » Divided into watches
And it came to pass the next day that Saul set the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and smote Ammon until the heat of the day: and it came to pass that they who remained were scattered, and not two of them were left together.
And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked upon the camp of the Egyptians, in the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and embarrassed the camp of the Egyptians.
Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.
But in the fourth watch of the night he went off to them, walking on the sea.
Night » Type of ignorance and sin
The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.
And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and light of the sun; for the Lord God shall shine upon them, and they shall reign to the ages of ages.
And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.
Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob! And he said, Here am I.
And the ass said to Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine to this day? was I ever wont to do so to thee? And he said, No.
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heavens broke forth upon the great sea.
Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in
And it came to pass that night, that an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
And I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Jehovah.
Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.
Night » Used figuratively
I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
The burden of Moab: For in the night of being laid waste, Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste, Kir of Moab is destroyed!
The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.
Night » Originally divided into three watches
And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked upon the camp of the Egyptians, in the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and embarrassed the camp of the Egyptians.
Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.
Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews
And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.
And God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
Night » Divided into four watches by the romans
But in the fourth watch of the night he went off to them, walking on the sea.
And if he come in the second watch, and come in the third watch, and find them thus, blessed are those bondmen.
Watch therefore, for ye do not know when the master of the house comes: evening, or midnight, or cock-crow, or morning;
Night » Continued until sunrise
Now late on sabbath, as it was the dusk of the next day after sabbath, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary to look at the sepulchre.
And very early on the first day of the week they come to the sepulchre, the sun having risen.
Night » General references to the natural
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.
{A Song of degrees.} Behold, bless Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, who by night stand in the house of Jehovah.
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation
For a moment is passed in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.
I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
Night » The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by
Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar, Jehovah of hosts is his name:
And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day, and the small light to rule the night, and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth, and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Night » Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during
Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them out of the heavens, and suffered neither the fowl of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
The young lions roar after the prey, and to seek their food from God. The sun ariseth, they retreat, and lay them down in their dens.
Night » Meditations in
I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search.
Mine eyes anticipate the night-watches, that I may meditate in thy word.
And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty
Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant
Henceforth, all the days of the earth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant in respect of the day, and my covenant in respect of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,
Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked
What was torn I have not brought to thee; I had to bear the loss of it: of my hand hast thou required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief. And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on his face.
Night » God frequently » Visited his people in
Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.
In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during
Thus it was with me: in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
And there were shepherds in that country abiding without, and keeping watch by night over their flock.
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities
seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion
On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during
And Simon answering said to him, Master, having laboured through the whole night we have taken nothing, but at thy word I will let down the net.
Simon Peter says to them, I go to fish. They say to him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and went on board, and that night took nothing.
Night » The jews » Forbidden to allow malefactors to hang during
his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day (for he that is hanged is a curse of God); and thou shalt not defile thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Night » The jews » Forbidden to keep the wages of servants during
Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, neither rob him. The wages of the hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Night » The jews » Often kept lamps burning during
She perceiveth that her earning is good; her lamp goeth not out by night.
Night » No night in heaven
And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and light of the sun; for the Lord God shall shine upon them, and they shall reign to the ages of ages.
And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.
Night » Commenced at sunset
And he lighted on a certain place, and lodged there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and made it his pillow, and lay down in that place.
Night » Illustrative of » Spiritual darkness
The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Night » Frequently » Exceeding dark
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from
And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Night » Designed for rest
Night » Caused by God
Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth:
Night » The darkness first called
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.
Night » Belongs to God
Night » Regular succession of » Ordained for the glory of God
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer
My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:
Night » Unsuitable for travelling
but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
Night » Wearisome to the afflicted
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.
Night » Illustrative of » death
I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Night » Divided into hours
And having called to him certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.
Night » Worship in
{A Song of degrees.} Behold, bless Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, who by night stand in the house of Jehovah.
Night » Unsuitable for labor
I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Night » Jesus prays all night
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
Prayer » Night » All Night Prayers » jacob
the seven No mores » No more » Night
And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and light of the sun; for the Lord God shall shine upon them, and they shall reign to the ages of ages.
the future » No more » Night
And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and light of the sun; for the Lord God shall shine upon them, and they shall reign to the ages of ages.
Topics on Night
Acting All Night
Exodus 27:21In the tent of meeting outside the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall dress them from evening to morning before Jehovah: it is an everlasting statute, for their generations, on the part of the children of Israel.
Affliction Day And Night
Psalm 32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
All Night Prayers
Luke 6:12And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.
Day Or Night
Psalm 1:2But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
During One Night
Acts 18:9And the Lord said by vision in the night to Paul, Fear not, but speak and be not silent;
Labour Day And Night
1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.
Protection Day And Night
1 Samuel 25:16They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.
Provision Of Day And Night
Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Provision Of Night
Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.
Spiritual Night
1 Thessalonians 5:5for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.
Three Days And Nights
Jonah 1:17And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Visions At Night
Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the tower-house.
Walking All Night
1 Samuel 31:12all the valiant men arose and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there.
Worship Day And Night
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from thy mouth; and thou shalt meditate upon it day and night, that thou mayest take heed to do according to all that is written therein; for then shalt thou have good success in thy ways, and then shalt thou prosper.