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, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
• Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
• Ps 119:147–148I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
• Ps 142:2I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
• Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
• 1 Sam 1:15Hannah 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 Yahweh.
• Ps 141:2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
• Lam 2:11–12My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver 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.
• Judg 7:19So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
• Ps 42:8Yahweh 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 6:12In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
• Matt 14:25In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
• Mark 13:35Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
• Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
• Isa 51:20Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
• Lam 4:1–9How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
• 1 Tim 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
• Ps 119:55I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
• Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
• 1 Sam 7:6They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
• Ezek 5:16when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.
• Ps 63:4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
• Ezek 5:10Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
• Nah 3:10Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

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