98 Bible Verses about Night
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God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from 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 sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so. God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.read more.
God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home."
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned.
Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!"
Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.
These are the singers, heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, [who lived] in the rooms [and were] free [from other service]; for they were employed in their work day and night.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough?
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,
Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
Then they cried to Yahweh 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 bonds in sunder.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
"It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock.
With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
"I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;
The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."
But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
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"It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
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But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
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Family Joy » Future » Maternal and paternal love » Night
There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
Israel » Journey » Night
It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
Night » Divided into watches
It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were over against them according to their offices.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
Night » Type of ignorance and sin
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,
There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in
God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."
The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?" He said, "No."
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in
It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.
Night » Used figuratively
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,
The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
Night » Originally divided into three watches
It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews
It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
Night » Divided into four watches by the romans
In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
Night » Continued until sunrise
Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
Night » General references to the natural
God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.
Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house!
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
Night » The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by
Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
Night » Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.
Night » Meditations in
Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.
I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on 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
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked
That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
Night » God frequently » Visited his people in
You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."
Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during
This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities
seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion
By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.
Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during
Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."
Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
Night » The jews » Forbidden to allow malefactors to hang during
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
Night » The jews » Forbidden to keep the wages of servants during
"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. "'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Night » The jews » Often kept lamps burning during
She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.
Night » No night in heaven
There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),
Night » Commenced at sunset
He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Night » Illustrative of » Spiritual darkness
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.
Night » Frequently » Exceeding dark
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Night » Designed for rest
Night » Caused by God
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
Night » The darkness first called
God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Night » Belongs to God
Night » Regular succession of » Ordained for the glory of God
Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Night » Unsuitable for travelling
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
Night » Wearisome to the afflicted
so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
Night » Illustrative of » death
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Night » Divided into hours
He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."
Night » Worship in
Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house!
Night » Unsuitable for labor
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Night » Jesus prays all night
It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Prayer » Night » All Night Prayers » jacob
the seven No mores » No more » Night
There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
the future » No more » Night
There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
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 keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Affliction Day And Night
Psalm 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
All Night Prayers
Luke 6:12It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Day Or Night
Psalm 1:2but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.
During One Night
Acts 18:9The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;
Labour Day And Night
1 Thessalonians 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
Protection Day And Night
1 Samuel 25:16They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
Provision Of Day And Night
Genesis 1:14God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Provision Of Night
Genesis 1:5God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Spiritual Night
1 Thessalonians 5:5You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,
Three Days And Nights
Jonah 1:17Yahweh 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 40:5They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
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 they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
Worship Day And Night
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.