Lamentations 2:19
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 2
“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.”Lamentations 2:19
What Does Lamentations 2:19 Mean?
Lamentations 2:19 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 2, verse 19 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Lament, Compassion, and Prayer.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 2:19 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 62:8“Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.”Psalms 119:147“I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.”Isaiah 26:9“With 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.”Psalms 142:2“I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.”Mark 1:35“And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.”1 Samuel 1:15“And 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.”Psalms 63:6“When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.”Psalms 141:2“Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.”Lamentations 2:11“Mine 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.”Judges 7:19“So 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.”Psalms 42:8“Yet 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 6:12“And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.”Psalms 119:148“Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.”Psalms 134:2“Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.”Matthew 14:25“And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.”Psalms 28:2“Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.”Mark 13:35“Watch 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:”Psalms 119:55“I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.”Isaiah 51:20“Thy 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.”Lamentations 4:1“How 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.”
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