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

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)

I remember your name during the night, O Lord, and I will keep your law.

I look for you during the night, my spirit within me seeks you at dawn, for when your judgments come upon the earth, those who live in the world learn about justice.

Then Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.

Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.

Watches

Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.

As the night was ending, Jesus came to them walking on the sea.

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return -- whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn --

Pour

But Hannah replied, "That's not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the Lord.

After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed there, "We have sinned against the Lord." So Samuel led the people of Israel at Mizpah.

For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)

I pour out my lament before him; I tell him about my troubles.

Lift up

Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!

For this reason I will praise you while I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.

Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and praise the Lord!

May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!

So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.

That faint

(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares.

(Alef)Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.

Your children faint; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a snare. They are left in a stupor by the Lord's anger, by the battle cry of your God.

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.

General references

whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.

They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!