Lamentations 2:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing.

Cross References

Job 3:24

Moaning and groaning are my food and drink,

Psalm 119:55

Even in the night I think about you, LORD, and I obey your Law.

Psalm 134:2

lift your hands in prayer towards his holy place and praise the LORD.

Psalm 141:2

Think of my prayer as sweet-smelling incense, and think of my lifted hands as an evening sacrifice.

Psalm 142:2

I tell you all my worries and my troubles,

Psalm 142:3

and whenever I feel low, you are there to guide me. A trap has been hidden along my pathway.

Psalm 28:2

Please listen to my prayer and my cry for help, as I lift my hands towards your holy temple.

Psalm 42:3

Day and night my tears are my only food, as everyone keeps asking, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

Sorrow floods my heart, when I remember leading the worshippers to your house. I can still hear them shout their joyful praises.

Psalm 42:8

Every day, you are kind, and at night you give me a song as my prayer to you, the living LORD God.

Psalm 62:8

Trust God, my friends, and always tell him each one of your concerns. God is our place of safety.

Psalm 63:4

As long as I live, I will pray to you.

Isaiah 26:9

Throughout the night, my heart searches for you, because your decisions show everyone on this earth how to live right.

Isaiah 51:20

The LORD your God is angry, and on every street corner your children lie helpless, like deer trapped in nets.

Jeremiah 14:18

In the fields I see the bodies of those killed in battle. And in the towns I see crowds dying of hunger. But the prophets and priests go about their business, without understanding what has happened.”

Jeremiah 9:20

“We ask you women to pay attention to what the LORD says. We will teach you a funeral song that you can teach your daughters and friends:

Ezekiel 5:10

Parents will be so desperate for food that they will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. Those who survive this horror will be scattered in every direction.

Ezekiel 5:16

I will destroy your crops until you starve to death, and disasters will strike you like arrows.

Micah 1:16

Judah, shave your head as bald as a vulture and start mourning. Your precious children will be dragged off to a foreign country.

Nahum 3:10

But she was captured and taken to a foreign country. Her children were murdered at every street corner. The members of her royal family were auctioned off, and her high officials were bound in chains.

Matthew 14:25

A little while before morning, Jesus came walking on the water towards his disciples.

Mark 1:35

Very early the next morning, Jesus got up and went to a place where he could be alone and pray.

Mark 13:35

So be alert! You don't know when the master of the house will come back. It could be in the evening or at midnight or before dawn or in the morning.

Luke 6:12

About that time Jesus went off to a mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night there.

1 Timothy 2:8

I want everyone everywhere to lift innocent hands towards heaven and pray, without being angry or arguing with each other.

Judges 7:19

Gideon and his group reached the edge of the enemy camp a few hours after dark, just after the new guards had come on duty. Gideon and his soldiers blew their trumpets and smashed the clay jars that were hiding the torches.

1 Samuel 1:15

“Sir, please don't think I'm no good!” Hannah answered. “I'm not drunk, and I haven't been drinking. But I do feel miserable and terribly upset. I've been praying all this time, telling the LORD about my problems.”

1 Samuel 7:6

The Israelites met together at Mizpah with Samuel as their leader. They drew water from the well and poured it out as an offering to the LORD. On that same day they went without eating to show their sorrow, and they confessed they had been unfaithful to the LORD.