Lamentations 2:19

WEB

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

KJV

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

BSB

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night.^[+] Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

FBV

¹⁹Get up and cry out as the night begins. Pour out your sad thoughts like water before the Lord. Hold up your hands to him in prayer for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger at every street corner.

Extra References

Psalms 62:8

⁸Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Isaiah 26:9

⁹With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Psalms 119:147-148

¹⁴⁷I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words. ¹⁴⁸My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

Psalms 142:2

²I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

Mark 1:35

³⁵Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

1 Samuel 1:15

¹⁵Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD.

Psalms 141:2

²Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Lamentations 2:11-12

¹¹My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city. ¹²They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

Psalms 42:8

⁸The LORD ^[+] will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Luke 6:12

¹²In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.