Lamentations 2:19

Modern English Version

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 your hands to Him for the lives of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Cross References

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groaning pours forth like the waters.

Psalm 119:55

I remember Your name in the night, O  Lord, and keep Your law.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.

Psalm 141:2

Let my prayer be set as incense before You, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 142:2

I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him.

Psalm 142:3

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way wherein I walk, they have secretly set a snare for me.

Psalm 28:2

Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You, when I lift up my hands toward Your most holy place.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I would go with the throng of people, and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping festival.

Psalm 42:8

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.   Selah

Psalm 63:4

Thus will I bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul I have desired You in the night; my spirit within me seeks You diligently; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 51:20

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of all the streets as an antelope in a net; they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, those who are sick with famine! Indeed, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they do not know.

Jeremiah 9:20

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor a lamentation.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore the fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I send upon them the deadly arrows of famine which shall be for their destruction and which I will send to destroy you, then I will also increase the famine upon you and break your staff of bread.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald and shave your head for the children of your delight; make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she went into exile, she went into captivity; her young children were dashed to pieces at the head of every street; they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Matthew 14:25

During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Mark 1:35

In the morning, rising up a great while before sunrise, He went out and departed to a solitary place. And there He prayed.

Mark 13:35

“Watch therefore—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning—

Luke 6:12

In these days He went out to the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I desire that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or contentiousness.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and a hundred men with him went to the edge of the camp at the start of the middle night watch, just as they were setting the watch. Then they blew the horns and smashed the jars in their hands.

1 Samuel 1:15

But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrow. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:6

They gathered together to Mizpah. And they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. And they fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel judged the Israelites in Mizpah.