Lamentations 2:19

God's Word

Get up! Cry out at night, every hour on the hour. Pour your heart out like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him ⌞in prayer⌟ for the life of your little children who faint from hunger at every street corner.”

Cross References

Job 3:24

“When my food is in front of me, I sigh. I pour out my groaning like water.

Psalm 119:55

At night I remember your name, O Lord, and I follow your teachings.

Psalm 134:2

Lift your hands toward the holy place, and praise the Lord.

Psalm 141:2

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.

Psalm 142:2

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

Psalm 142:3

When I begin to lose hope, you ⌞already⌟ know what I am experiencing. ⌞My enemies⌟ have hidden a trap for me on the path where I walk.

Psalm 28:2

Hear my prayer for mercy when I call to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your most holy place.

Psalm 42:3

My tears are my food day and night. People ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

I will remember these things as I pour out my soul: how I used to walk with the crowd and lead it in a procession to God’s house. ⌞I sang⌟ songs of joy and thanksgiving while crowds of people celebrated a festival.

Psalm 42:8

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

Psalm 62:8

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

Psalm 63:4

So I will thank you as long as I live. I will lift up my hands ⌞to pray⌟ in your name.

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul I long for you at night. Yes, with my spirit I eagerly look for you. When your guiding principles are on earth, those who live in the world learn to do what is right.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children have fainted. They lie sleeping at every street corner. They are like an antelope caught in a net. They experience the anger of the Lord, the fury of your God.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they haven’t heard of.

Jeremiah 9:20

Listen to the Lord’s word, you women, and open your ears to hear his words. Teach your daughters how to cry. Teach your neighbors funeral songs.

Ezekiel 5:10

That is why parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter whoever is left to the wind.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I shoot my destructive arrows of famine at you, I will shoot to kill you. I will bring more and more famines into your land, and I will cut off your food supply.

Micah 1:16

Shave your head in mourning for the children you love. Make yourselves as bald as vultures because your children will be taken from you into exile.

Nahum 3:10

Even she went into captivity and was exiled. Even her little 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.

Matthew 14:25

Between three and six o’clock in the morning, he came to them. He was walking on the sea.

Mark 1:35

In the morning, long before sunrise, Jesus went to a place where he could be alone to pray.

Mark 13:35

Therefore, be alert, because you don’t know when the owner of the house will return. It could be in the evening or at midnight or at dawn or in the morning.

Luke 6:12

At that time Jesus went to a mountain to pray. He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

1 Timothy 2:8

I want men to offer prayers everywhere. They should raise their hands in prayer after putting aside their anger and any quarrels they have with anyone.

Judges 7:19

Gideon and his 100 men came to the edge of the camp. It was the beginning of the midnight watch just at the change of the guards. They blew their rams’ horns and smashed the jars they were holding in their hands.

1 Samuel 1:15

Hannah responded, “No sir. I’m not drunk. I’m depressed. I’m pouring out my heart to the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:6

So the Israelites gathered together at Mizpah. They drew some water, poured it out in front of the Lord, and fasted that day. They confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel judged Israel in Mizpah.