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; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
• Isa 26:9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
• Ps 119:147–148I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
• Ps 142:2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
• Mark 1:35And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
• 1 Sam 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 the LORD.
• Ps 141:2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
• Lam 2:11–12Mine 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.
• Judg 7:19So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
• Ps 42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
• Luke 6:12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
• Matt 14:25And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
• Mark 13:35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
• Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
• Isa 51:20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
• Lam 4:1–9How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
• 1 Tim 2:8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
• Ps 119:55I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
• Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
• 1 Sam 7:6And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
• Ezek 5:16When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
• Ps 63:4Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
• Ezek 5:10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
• Nah 3:10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

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