Lamentations 2:19

New International Reader's Version

Get up. Cry out as the night begins. Tell the Lord all your troubles. Lift up your hands to him. Pray that the lives of your children will be spared. At every street corner they faint because they are so hungry.

Cross References

Job 3:24

Sighs have become my food every day. Groans pour out of me like water.

Psalm 119:55

Lord, during the night I remember who you are. That’s why I keep your law.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the temple and praise the Lord.

Psalm 141:2

May my prayer come to you like the sweet smell of incense. When I lift up my hands in prayer, may it be like the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 142:2

I pour out my problem to him. I tell him about my trouble.

Psalm 142:3

When I grow weak, you are watching over my life. In the path where I walk, people have hidden a trap to catch me.

Psalm 28:2

Hear my cry for your favor when I call out to you for help. Hear me when I lift up my hands in prayer toward your Most Holy Room.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night. All day long people say to me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

When I remember what has happened, I tell God all my troubles. I remember how I used to walk to the house of God. The Mighty One guarded my steps. We shouted with joy and praised God as we went along with the joyful crowd.

Psalm 42:8

During the day the Lord sends his love to me. During the night I sing about him. I say a prayer to the God who gives me life.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in him at all times, you people. Tell him all your troubles. God is our place of safety.

Psalm 63:4

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

Isaiah 26:9

My heart longs for you at night. My spirit longs for you in the morning. You will come and judge the earth. Then the people of the world will learn to do what is right.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children have fainted. They lie helpless at every street corner. They are like antelope that have been caught in a net. They have felt the full force of the Lord’s great anger. Jerusalem, your God had to warn them strongly.

Jeremiah 14:18

Suppose I go into the country. Then I see people who have been killed by swords. Or suppose I go into the city. Then I see people who have died of hunger. Prophet and priest alike have gone to a land they hadn’t known about before.’ ”

Jeremiah 9:20

You women, hear the Lord’s message. Listen to what he’s saying. Teach your daughters how to mourn for the dead. Teach one another a song of sadness.

Ezekiel 5:10

So parents will eat their own children inside the city. And children will eat their parents. I will punish you. And I will scatter to the winds anyone who is left alive.

Ezekiel 5:16

I will shoot at you with my deadly, destroying arrows of hunger. I will shoot to kill. I will bring more and more hunger on you. I will cut off your food supply.

Micah 1:16

The children you enjoy so much will be taken away as prisoners. So shave your heads and mourn. Make them as bare as the head of a vulture.

Nahum 3:10

But Thebes was captured anyway. Its people were taken away as prisoners. Its babies were smashed to pieces at every street corner. The Assyrian soldiers cast lots for all its nobles. They put them in chains and made slaves out of them.

Matthew 14:25

Shortly before dawn, Jesus went out to the disciples. He walked on the lake.

Mark 1:35

It was very early in the morning and still dark. Jesus got up and left the house. He went to a place where he could be alone. There he prayed.

Mark 13:35

“So keep watch! You do not know when the owner of the house will come back. It may be in the evening or at midnight. It may be when the rooster crows or at dawn.

Luke 6:12

On one of those days, Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray. He spent the night praying to God.

1 Timothy 2:8

So I want the men in every place to pray. I want them to lift up holy hands. I don’t want them to be angry when they pray. I don’t want them to argue.

Judges 7:19

Gideon and the 100 men with him reached the edge of the enemy camp. It was about ten o’clock at night. It was just after the guard had been changed. Gideon and his men blew their trumpets. They broke the jars that were in their hands.

1 Samuel 1:15

“That’s not true, sir,” Hannah replied. “I’m a woman who is deeply troubled. I haven’t been drinking wine or beer. I was telling the Lord all my troubles.

1 Samuel 7:6

When the people had come together at Mizpah, they went to the well and got water. They poured it out in front of the Lord. On that day they didn’t eat any food. They admitted they had sinned. They said, “We’ve sinned against the Lord.” Samuel was serving as the leader of Israel at Mizpah.