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

Psalm 28:2

1 Timothy 2:8

That faint

Nahum 3:10

General references

Psalm 107:5

Mark 13:17

Bible References

Cry out

But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)

I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.

Watches

So Gideon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the outer line of tents, at the start of the middle watch, when the watchmen had only then taken their stations; and the horns were sounded and the vessels broken.

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;

Pour

And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.

So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.

In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)

I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

Lift up

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

That faint

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

General references

Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.