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John 1:6
There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
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Jeremiah 5:1
“ Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
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Romans 13:11
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
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Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
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1 Corinthians 15 34
Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
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Psalms 43:2-5
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
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Proverbs 8:2-3
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:
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Psalms 77:7-10
“ Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.Then I thought,“ I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
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Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says,“ Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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Isaiah 64:7
There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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Song of Solomon 5 5
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
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Luke 14:21-23
“ That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant,‘ Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’“ The servant said,‘ Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’“ The lord said to the servant,‘ Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
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Psalms 22:1-2
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
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Proverbs 1:20-21
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
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Psalms 42:7-9
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.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 will ask God, my rock,“ Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
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Matthew 26:40-41
He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter,“ What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”