Lamentations 2:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Cry out

Watches

Judges 7:19

Matthew 14:25

Mark 13:35

Pour

Psalm 142:2

Lift up

1 Timothy 2:8

That faint

Nahum 3:10

General references

Psalm 63:6

Psalm 107:5

Mark 13:17

Bible References

Cry out

Yet the LORD will command his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Wait in him at all times; ye peoples, pour out your heart before him; God is our refuge. Selah.

I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

With my soul I desire thee in the night; yea, even as long as the spirit is within me I will seek thee early: for as long as thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place and prayed there.

And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.

Watches

So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch when only the guards were awake, and they blew the shofarot and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walking upon the sea.

Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the Lord of the house comes: at evening or at midnight or at the cockcrowing or in the morning,

Pour

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

And they gathered together in Mizpeh and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.

For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

Wait in him at all times; ye peoples, pour out your heart before him; God is our refuge. Selah.

I shall pour out my complaint before him; before him I shall tell of my trouble.

Lift up

Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

Thus will I bless thee in my life; in thy name shall I lift up my hands.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the gift of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

I desire, therefore, that the men in every place, pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and strife.

That faint

Caph My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

Aleph How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are scattered through the crossings of every street.

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

For the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee I will scatter into all the winds.

Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

General references

When I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!