5537 sleeplessness
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The absence of or inability to sleep. Scripture suggests that sleeplessness will sometimes result from divine intervention. Scripture also provides examples of deliberate sleeplessness in order to seek God.

Anxiety and sorrow as causes of sleeplessness

Ecclesiastes 2:22-23 See also Proverbs 6:1-4; Ecclesiastes 5:12; Jeremiah 45:3

Other causes of sleeplessness

Work

Psalm 127:2

Pain and sickness

Job 30:17 See also Job 7:4-5; Job 33:19; Revelation 14:11

Evil deeds

Proverbs 4:14-16 See also Isaiah 5:27

Concern for God's cause

Psalm 132:4-5 See also Isaiah 62:6; Luke 2:37; Luke 6:12; Acts 12:12

People who experienced sleeplessness

Jacob

Genesis 31:40

Saul

1 Samuel 16:14 Loss of sleep probably among the troubles of Saul alleviated by David's playing. See also 1 Samuel 16:15-23

Xerxes

Esther 6:1

Job

Job 7:4 See also Job 7:11-15

Darius

Daniel 6:18

Paul

2 Corinthians 11:27 See also 2 Corinthians 6:5

God deprives sinners of rest

Isaiah 48:22 pp Hebrews 3:11 pp Hebrews 4:1-5

Restlessness because of judgment on sin

Revelation 14:11 See also Deuteronomy 28:67; 1 Samuel 16:14; Isaiah 21:4; Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 57:20-21; Lamentations 5:5

Sleeplessness allows people to receive messages from God

Daniel 2:1; Zechariah 4:1 See also 1 Samuel 3:1-10; Daniel 2:29; Matthew 27:19

A challenge to abandon sleep

Abandoning actual sleep

Luke 6:12 See also Matthew 26:36-46 pp Mark 14:32-42 pp Luke 22:47-53; Luke 2:37; Revelation 16:15

Abandoning spiritual lethargy

Psalm 57:8 See also Proverbs 6:10; Ecclesiastes 5:2; Isaiah 51:9

God's watchfulness

Psalm 121:3-4; Isaiah 40:28-31

The blessing of sleep

Psalm 4:8 See also Leviticus 26:6; Psalm 3:5; Psalm 127:2; Proverbs 3:24

See also

1409  dream
1469  visions
5482  punishment
5532  sleep
5831  depression
5933  restlessness
8490  watchfulness
8734  evil
8849  worry



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