Lamentations 2:19

Jerusalem is called to rise in the night and pour out her heart to God for her dying children. It urges desperate, wholehearted intercession.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 62:8Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
• Isa 26:9My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
• Ps 119:147–148I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
• Ps 142:2I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
• Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and slipped out to a solitary place to pray.
• 1 Sam 1:15“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
• Ps 141:2May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
• Lam 2:11–12My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
• Judg 7:19Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
• Ps 42:8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
• Luke 6:12In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
• Matt 14:25During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.
• Mark 13:35Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
• Ps 28:2Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
• Isa 51:20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
• Lam 4:1–9How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
• 1 Tim 2:8Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
• Ps 119:55In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.
• Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
• 1 Sam 7:6When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
• Ezek 5:16When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
• Ps 63:4So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
• Ezek 5:10As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
• Nah 3:10Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

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