Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.
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1 Samuel 1:15And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before Jehovah.
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
Psalms 42:8In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalms 63:4So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Psalms 119:147I anticipate the morning-dawn and I cry: I hope in thy word.
Psalms 141:2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22
Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →