Then He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?

And when He returned, He found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him.

How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?

So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.

A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest;

So shall your poverty come [like] a prowler, And your need like an armed man.

By night on my bed I sought the one I love; I sought him, but I did not find him.

I sleep, but my heart is awake; [It is] the voice of my beloved! He knocks, [saying,] "Open for me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one; For my head is covered with dew, My locks with the drops of the night."

His watchmen [are] blind, They are all ignorant; They [are] all dumb dogs, They cannot bark; Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

"But if that evil servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,'

"the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for [him] and at an hour that he is not aware of,

"But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

" But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we [first] believed.

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.

Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light."

Therefore let us not sleep, as others [do,] but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.