Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.
New American Standard Bible
At the beginning of the night watches;
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the
Who are
At the head of every street.”
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
ק Qof
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.
International Standard Version
Get up and cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of every hour. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord! Lift up your hands toward him for the lives of your children, who are fainting away at every street corner.
A Conservative Version
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out thy heart like water before the face of LORD. Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
American Standard Version
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy 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 at the head of every street.
Amplified
“Arise, cry aloud in the night,
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint from hunger
At the head of every street.”
Bible in Basic English
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Darby Translation
Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.
Julia Smith Translation
Arise, cry aloud in the night: at the head of the watches pour out thy heart as water before the face of Jehovah: lift up thy hands to him for the soul of thy young children fainting with hunger in the head of all the streets.
King James 2000
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Kuf} Stand up and make thy prayer in the first watch of the night; pour out thine heart like water before the LORD. Lift up thine hands for the lives of thy young children that die of hunger in the streets.
NET Bible
(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner.
New Heart English Bible
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
The Emphasized Bible
Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches, pour out, like waters, thy heart, right before the face of My Lord, - Lift up, above thee, the palms of thy hands, for the life of thy children, who are swooning for hunger, at the top of all the streets!
Webster
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands towards him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
World English Bible
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Youngs Literal Translation
Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.
Themes
Afflictions made beneficial » In leading us to seek God in prayer
Children » Parents, duty to » To train
Fathers » Duties of » To train
hands » Laying on of » Lifted up
Home » special duties of parents » To train
Night » Originally divided into three watches
Topics
Interlinear
Quwm
Ranan
Leb
Mayim
Paniym
Nasa'
Kaph
Nephesh
`ataph
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 2:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Is Angry
18 Their heart cried to Jehovah. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night; give yourself no rest. Let not the daughter of your eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street. 20 Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of tender care? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the holy place of the Lord?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 62:8
Trust in Him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before Him; God is a hiding-place for us. Selah.
1 Samuel 1:15
And Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have neither drunk wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before Jehovah.
Isaiah 26:9
With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 51:20
Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the street like a wild antelope in a net, filled with the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of your God.
1 Samuel 7:6
And they were gathered to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured out before Jehovah, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.
Psalm 119:147-148
I went before the dawning of the morning and cried; I hoped in Your Word.
Lamentations 2:11-12
My eyes fail with tears; my inward parts ferment; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people, in that the children and the babies faint in the streets of the city.
1 Timothy 2:8
Therefore, I desire that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Judges 7:19
So Gideon and the hundred men with him came to the edge of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch. And they had but newly set the watch. And they blew the ram's horns and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
Job 3:24
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
Psalm 28:2
Hear the voice of my prayers, when I cry to You, when I lift up my hands toward Your Holy Place.
Psalm 42:8
Jehovah will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, my prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 63:4
So I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
Psalm 119:55
I have remembered Your name, O Jehovah, in the night, and have kept Your Law.
Psalm 134:2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.
Psalm 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before You as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalm 142:2
I poured out my prayer before Him; I declared my trouble before Him.
Lamentations 4:1-9
How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Ezekiel 5:10
So the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments in you, and I will scatter the whole remnant of you into all the winds.
Ezekiel 5:16
When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their ruin, which I will send to destroy you; even I will increase the famine on you, and break your staff of bread;
Nahum 3:10
Yet she went into exile; she went into captivity, and her young children also were dashed to 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.
Matthew 14:25
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.
Mark 1:35
And rising up quite early in the night, He went out and went away into a deserted place, and He was praying there.
Mark 13:35
Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early;
Luke 6:12
And it happened in those days that He went out into a mountain to pray, and He was spending the night in prayer to God.