Bedtime Prayers for a Baby | Spoken Blessings at Night

This page is for that hour . not for the long wait, and not for a lecture. It is for parents and grandparents who want to speak a blessing over a baby at bedtime and cannot always find the words once the rocking starts.

The verses below are King James Version (KJV), the named translation Kalinda Grace uses on this site. You can read them out loud. You can shorten them. You can rest your cheek on a small head and only get through the first line. That still counts.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers 6:24–26, KJV

The blessing already on Kalinda’s homepage. Keep. Shine. Peace. Enough for a whole night.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

Psalm 4:8, KJV

A bedtime sentence you can whisper over a crib: peace, sleep, safety . His, not yours to manufacture.

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Proverbs 3:24, KJV

For the baby, and for the adult who is still listening for every breath.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

Psalm 121:3–4, KJV

You can sleep because He does not. A night-watch verse, spoken softly.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Isaiah 40:11, KJV

Lambs carried close. A picture you can hold while you hold the child.

And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

Mark 10:16, KJV

Jesus and the little children: arms, hands, a blessing. The pattern for this whole hour.

If you want a prayer already written for every night

Kalinda wrote 365 spoken prayers . one for each day of a baby’s first year . so you do not have to invent the language when you are tired. That book is Bedtime Blessings for My Baby.

If tonight you only need one blessing already written, start with the short note When the words will not come . Numbers 6:24–26, KJV, for the last quiet minutes before sleep.