Verse 19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:8 : 8 Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • Ps 142:2 : 2 I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
  • Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soul have I 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.
  • 1 Sam 1:15 : 15 Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
  • Ps 119:147-148 : 147 I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words. 148 My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
  • Ps 42:8 : 8 Yahweh 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.
  • Isa 51:20 : 20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.
  • Lam 2:11-12 : 11 My eyes do 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. 12 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
  • Judg 7:19 : 19 So 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: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
  • 1 Sam 7:6 : 6 They 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.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
  • Ps 28:2 : 2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
  • Matt 14:25 : 25 In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
  • Mark 1:35 : 35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
  • Mark 13:35 : 35 Watch 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;
  • Luke 6:12 : 12 It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
  • Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
  • Ps 141:2 : 2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
  • Ps 63:4 : 4 So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
  • Ps 119:55 : 55 I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
  • Lam 4:1-9 : 1 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. 5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her. 7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire. 8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
  • Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.
  • Ezek 5:16 : 16 when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;
  • Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet 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.