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 lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

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

With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

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

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a 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; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

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

Watch you therefore: for you know not when the Master of the house comes, at evening, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, 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 to Mizpah, 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 children of Israel at Mizpah.

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

Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.

Lift up

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.

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

Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

I desire therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

That faint

My eyes do fail with tears, my soul is troubled, my heart is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the infants faint in the streets of the city.

How has the gold become dim! how has the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

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

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

General references

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

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse children in those days!