Lamentations 2:19

New American Bible - revised edition

Rise up! Wail in the night, at the start of every watch; Pour out your heart like water before the Lord; Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, Who collapse from hunger at the corner of every street.

Cross References

Job 3:24

For to me sighing comes more readily than food; my groans well forth like water.

Psalm 119:55

Even at night I remember your name in observance of your law, Lord.

Psalm 134:2

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

Psalm 141:2

Let my prayer be incense before you; my uplifted hands an evening offering.

Psalm 142:2

With my own voice I cry to the Lord; with my own voice I beseech the Lord.

Psalm 142:3

Before him I pour out my complaint, tell of my distress in front of him.

Psalm 28:2

Hear the sound of my pleading when I cry to you for help when I lift up my hands toward your holy place.

Psalm 42:3

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I enter and see the face of God?

Psalm 42:4

My tears have been my bread day and night, as they ask me every day, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:8

Deep calls to deep in the roar of your torrents, and all your waves and breakers sweep over me.

Psalm 62:8

My deliverance and honor are with God, my strong rock; my refuge is with God.

Psalm 63:4

For your love is better than life; my lips shall ever praise you!

Isaiah 26:9

My soul yearns for you at night, yes, my spirit within me seeks you at dawn; When your judgment comes upon the earth, the world’s inhabitants learn justice.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children lie helpless at every street corner like antelopes in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I walk out into the field, look! those slain by the sword; If I enter the city, look! victims of famine. Both prophet and priest ply their trade in a land they do not know.

Jeremiah 9:20

Death has come up through our windows, has entered our citadels, To cut down children in the street, young people in the squares.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I loose against you the deadly arrows of starvation that I am sending to destroy you, I will increase starvation and will break your staff of bread.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald, cut off your hair, for the children whom you cherish; Make yourself bald as a vulture, for they are taken from you into exile.

Nahum 3:10

Yet even she became an exile, and went into captivity; Even her little ones were dashed to pieces at the corner of every street; For her nobles they cast lots, and all her great ones were put into chains.

Matthew 14:25

During the fourth watch of the night, he came toward them, walking on the sea.

Mark 1:35

Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed.

Mark 13:35

Watch, therefore; you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning.

Luke 6:12

In those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.

1 Timothy 2:8

It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the posting of the guards. They blew the horns and broke the jars they were holding.

1 Samuel 1:15

“No, my lord!” Hannah answered. “I am an unhappy woman. I have had neither wine nor liquor; I was only pouring out my heart to the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:6

When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out on the ground before the Lord, and they fasted that day, saying, “We have sinned against the Lord.” It was at Mizpah that Samuel began to judge the Israelites. Rout of the Philistines.