Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! 1 Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. 1 Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint with hunger at the corner of every street.” 1

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In The King James Version

Arise, 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.

In Context

18Their heart cried out to the Lord, 1 walls of the daughter of Zion! Make your tears flow down like a river day and night. 1 Give yourself no relief, your eyes no relief. 1

20See, Yahweh, and consider those you have dealt in this way. 1 Should women eat the fruit of their wombs, the children whom they have cared for? 1 Should priest and prophet be slaughtered in the sanctuary of the Lord? 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 1:15Hannah answered, “No, my master, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before Yahweh.

Job 3:24For my sighing happens instead of eating; 1 my groaning is poured out like water. 1

Psalms 42:8Yet Yahweh will command his covenant faithfulness in the daytime; 1 in the night his song will be with me, 1 a prayer to the God of my life. 1

Psalms 63:4So I will bless you while I live; 1 I will lift up my hands in your name. 1

Psalms 119:147I rise before the dawn of the morning and cry for help. 1 I hope in your words. 1

Psalms 141:2May my prayer be like incense before you; 1 may my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice. 1

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 →

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