Lamentations 2:19

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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 will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.

Trust in Him at all times, O people;

Pour out your heart before Him;

God is a refuge for us. Selah.

O Lord, I remember Your name in the night,
And keep Your law.

At night my soul longs for You,

Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;
For when the earth experiences Your judgments
The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there.

It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

Watches

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

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

Therefore, be on the alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—

Pour

But Hannah replied, “No, my lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

They gathered 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 sons of Israel at Mizpah.

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.

Trust in Him at all times, O people;

Pour out your heart before Him;

God is a refuge for us. Selah.

I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare my trouble before Him.

Lift up

Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help,
When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

So I will bless You as long as I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.

Lift up your hands to the sanctuary

And bless the Lord.

May my prayer be counted as incense before You;
The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

That faint

My eyes fail because of tears,
My

spirit is greatly troubled;

heart is poured out on the earth

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,

When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.

How dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the corner of every street.

Your sons have fainted,
They lie helpless at the head of every street,
Like an antelope in a net,
Full of the wrath of the Lord,
The rebuke of your God.

Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

Yet she became an exile,
She went into captivity;
Also her small children were dashed to pieces

At the head of every street;

They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with fetters.

General references

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in the night watches,

They were hungry and thirsty;
Their soul fainted within them.

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!