Proverbs 3:24

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

“ ‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

But when you go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies around you, so that you dwell in safety,

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.

Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

“ ‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

“ ‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.

Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favor.

The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’ ”

“If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it is made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’

I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.

The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’

In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’ ” ’

Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years, then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”