Words of Wisdom
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. 1 Samuel 19:11
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. Nehemiah 4:9
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. Psalm 63:6
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Psalm 90:4
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. Psalm 119:148
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
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 enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
Isaiah 21:8-12
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isaiah 62:6, 7
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. Lamentations 2:19
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. Matthew 14:25
And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. Mark 6:48
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. Luke 2:8
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. Acts 9:24
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. Acts 20:31
