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

The LORD hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

O put your trust in him always, ye people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.

I have thought upon thy name, O LORD, in the night season, and have kept thy law.

My soul lusteth after thee all the night long, and my mind hasteth freely to thee. For as soon as thy judgment is known to the world, then the inhabiters of the earth learn righteousness.

And in the morning, very early, Jesus arose and went out into a solitary place, and there prayed.

And it fortuned in those days, that he went out into a mountain for to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Watches

And so Gideon, and the three hundred men that were with him, came unto the side of the host in the beginning of the middle watch, and raised up the watchmen. And they blew with their trumpets and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came unto them, walking on the sea:

Watch, therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house will come: whether at even, or at midnight; whether at the cock crowing, or in the dawning:

Pour

Hannah answered, and said, "Not so, my lord. I am a woman sorrowful in mine heart, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted the same day, and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the causes of the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.

O put your trust in him always, ye people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.

I pour out my complaint before him, and show him of my trouble.

Lift up

Hear the voice of my humble petitions, when I cry unto thee, when I hold up my hands towards the mercy seat of thy holy temple.

As long as I live will I magnify thee and lift up my hands in thy name.

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

Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.

I will, therefore, that the men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath, or doubting.

That faint

{Khaf} Mine eyes begin to fail me through weeping, my body is disquieted, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the great hurt of my people, seeing the children and babes did swoon in the streets of the city.

{Aleph} O how is the gold become so dim? How is the goodly colour of it so sore changed? And the stones of the sanctuary thus scattered in the corner of every street?

Thy sons lie comfortless at the head of every street like a taken venison, and are full of the terrible wrath of the LORD, and punishment of thy God.

For in thee the fathers shall be fain to eat their own sons, and the sons their own fathers. Such a court will I keep in thee, and the whole remnant will I scatter into all the winds.

yet was she driven away, and brought into captivity: her young children were smitten down at the head of every street, the lots were cast for the most ancient men in her, and all her mighty men were bound in chains.

General references

Have I not remembered thee in my bed, and thought upon thee when I was waking?

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

But woe is then to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days.