How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?
Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Understand, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise?
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.
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,
Provides her supplies in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep—
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And an idle person will suffer hunger.
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.
As a door turns on its hinges, So does the lazy man on his bed.
The fool folds his hands And consumes his own flesh.