Reference

Psalms 78:65

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
63

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

64

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

65

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

66

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

67

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Death as Sleep

The verse describes the Lord awakening from a state likened to sleep, not death. It uses sleep as a metaphor for the Lord's previous inaction, contrasting it with His subsequent powerful intervention.