Quotes About Vigilance

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.

Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.

For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.

When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”

Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

Israelís watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spiderís web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,

For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.

Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.

He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.