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

Jehovah commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Trust him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in his presence. God is our refuge.

O Jehovah, I remember your name in the night, and keep your law.

I yearn for you in the night. In the morning I long for you with all my being. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

Early in the morning, long before daybreak, Jesus awoke and went into the wilderness to pray.

He went to the mountain to pray and he continued all night in prayer to God.

Watches

Gideon and the hundred men, who were with him, came to the outside of the camp. It was the beginning of the middle watch and they had just posted the new watch. They blew the trumpets, and broke the jars that were in their hands.

Just before morning, Jesus walked to them on the water.

Watch therefore for you do not know when the lord of the house comes. It could be in the evening, at midnight or in the morning (when the cock crows).

Pour

No, I am not drunk, she answered. I have not been drinking! I am desperate. I have prayed and poured out my troubles to Jehovah.

The Israelites gathered at Mizpah. They drew some water, poured it out in front of Jehovah and fasted that day. They confessed: We have sinned against Jehovah. So Samuel judged Israel in Mizpah.

Sighing comes to me instead of food. My groans pour out like water.

Trust him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts in his presence. God is our refuge.

I pour out my complaints in his presence and tell him my troubles.

Lift up

Hear the voice of my prayer when I call to you for help, when I lift my hands [in prayer] toward your most holy place.

So I will bless (thank) you as long as I live. I will lift up my hands [in prayer] in your name.

Lift up your hands in holiness and bless Jehovah.

Let my prayer be accepted as sweet-smelling incense in your presence. Let the lifting up of my hands in prayer be accepted as an evening sacrifice.

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

That faint

My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

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

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of every street. They are like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the rage of Jehovah and the rebuke of your God.

Fathers will eat their sons among you and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter your entire remnant to every wind.'

She went into captivity and was exiled. Her children were smashed to death at every street corner. Soldiers tossed dice for her important men, and all her best men were bound in chains.

General references

As I lie on my bed, I remember you. Through the long hours of the night, I think about you.

Hungry and thirsty, they fainted within.

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