Lamentations 2:19

Translations

Modern

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

Traditional

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.

Literal

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like waters before the face of the Lord! Lift up toward Him your hands over the soul of your infants, those weakened by hunger in the head of every street!

Latin

Consurge, lauda in nocte, in principio vigiliarum; effunde sicut aquam cor tuum ante conspectum Domini: leva ad eum manus tuas pro anima parvulorum tuorum, qui defecerunt in fame in capite omnium compitorum.

Original

Hebrew

English

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

Notes

Lamentations 2:18–19

Repentance and prayer are the proper responses when facing the devastation of God’s judgment.

Lamentations 2:1–22

This chapter vividly shows the Lord acting as the one who destroys Jerusalem.

Related verses

Psalm 62:8
Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
Isaiah 26:9
My 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.
Psalm 119:147–148
I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
Psalm 142:2
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
Mark 1:35
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and went out to a solitary place to pray.
1 Samuel 1:15
“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
Psalm 141:2
May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.
Lamentations 2:11–12
My 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.
Judges 7:19
Gideon 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.
Psalm 42:8
The 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 6:12
In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
Matthew 14:25
During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.

People

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Glossary

Acrostic Lamentations, Book of Poetry, Biblical Watch

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Afflictions Made Beneficial in Leading Us to Seek God in Prayer Famine: Described Night: Divided Into Watches Night: Originally Divided Into Three Watches Prayer: Postures in Lifting up the Hands

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