Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry aloud in the night at the beginning of the watches! Pour out thy heart like water before the face of Jehovah! Lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy young children, That faint for hunger at the head of all the streets!
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Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groans are poured out like water.
Psalms 42:8Once the LORD commanded his kindness by day, And by night his praise was with me,-Thanksgiving to the God of my life.
Psalms 63:4Thus will I bless thee, while I live; In thy name will I lift up my hands!
Psalms 119:147I come before the dawn with my prayer; I trust in thy promise!
Psalms 141:2Let my prayer come before thee as incense, And the lifting-up of my hands, as the evening sacrifice!
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 →