Lamentations 2:19

New Century Version

Get up, cry out in the night, even as the night begins. Pour out your heart like water in prayer to the Lord. Lift up your hands in prayer to him for the life of your children who are fainting with hunger on every street corner.

Cross References

Job 3:24

I make sad sounds as I eat; my groans pour out like water.

Psalm 119:55

Lord, I remember you at night, and I will obey your teachings.

Psalm 134:2

Raise your hands in the Temple and praise the Lord.

Psalm 141:2

Let my prayer be like incense placed before you, and my praise like the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 142:2

I pour out my problems to him; I tell him my troubles.

Psalm 142:3

When I am afraid, you, Lord, know the way out. In the path where I walk, a trap is hidden for me.

Psalm 28:2

Hear the sound of my prayer, when I cry out to you for help. I raise my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Psalm 42:3

Day and night, my tears have been my food. People are always saying, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

When I remember these things, I speak with a broken heart. I used to walk with the crowd and lead them to God’s Temple with songs of praise.

Psalm 42:8

The Lord shows his true love every day. At night I have a song, and I pray to my living God.

Psalm 62:8

People, trust God all the time. Tell him all your problems, because God is our protection.Selah

Psalm 63:4

I will praise you as long as I live. I will lift up my hands in prayer to your name.

Isaiah 26:9

My soul wants to be with you at night, and my spirit wants to be with you at the dawn of every day. When your way of justice comes to the land, people of the world will learn the right way of living.

Isaiah 51:20

Your people have become weak. They fall down and lie on every street corner, like animals caught in a net. They have felt the full anger of the Lord and have heard God’s angry shout.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the country, I see people killed by swords. If I go into the city, I see much sickness, because the people have no food. Both the priests and the prophets have been taken to a foreign land.’ ”

Jeremiah 9:20

Now, women of Judah, listen to the word of the Lord ; open your ears to hear the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to cry loudly. Teach one another a funeral song.

Ezekiel 5:10

So parents among you will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and will scatter to the winds all who are left alive.

Ezekiel 5:16

I will send a time of hunger to destroy you, and then I will make your hunger get even worse, and I will cut off your supply of food.

Micah 1:16

Cut off your hair to show you are sad for the children you love. Make yourself bald like the eagle, because your children will be taken away to a foreign land.

Nahum 3:10

But Thebes was captured and went into captivity. Her small children were beaten to death at every street corner. Lots were thrown for her important men, and all of her leaders were put in chains.

Matthew 14:25

Between three and six o’clock in the morning, Jesus came to them, walking on the water.

Mark 1:35

Early the next morning, while it was still dark, Jesus woke and left the house. He went to a lonely place, where he prayed.

Mark 13:35

So always be ready, because you don’t know when the owner of the house will come back. It might be in the evening, or at midnight, or in the morning while it is still dark, or when the sun rises.

Luke 6:12

At that time Jesus went off to a mountain to pray, and he spent the night praying to God.

1 Timothy 2:8

So, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up their hands in a holy manner, without anger and arguments.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the one hundred men with him came to the edge of the enemy camp just after they had changed guards. It was during the middle watch of the night. Then Gideon and his men blew their trumpets and smashed their jars.

1 Samuel 1:15

Hannah answered, “No, sir, I have not drunk any wine or beer. I am a deeply troubled woman, and I was telling the Lord about all my problems.

1 Samuel 7:6

So the Israelites met together at Mizpah. They drew water from the ground and poured it out before the Lord and fasted that day. They confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel served as judge of Israel at Mizpah.