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Lamentations 2:19 Cross-References
Explore 20 cross-references for Lamentations 2:19 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Lamentations chapter 2 verse 19 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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 (KJV)
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Commentary on Lamentations 2:19
Urgent nighttime prayer: "Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord" (kumi ronni va-laylah le-rosh ashmurot shiphkhi kha-mayim libeikh nokach penei Adonai). "Arise" (kumi) demands action—don't remain passive. "Cry out in the night" (ronni va-laylah)—nighttime prayer demonstrates urgency and desperation (Psalm 119:62, Acts 16:25). "In the beginning of the watches" (le-rosh ashmurot) refers to ancient night watches (three 4-hour periods, Judges 7:19, or four 3-hour periods in Roman times). Beginning prayers at watch-c...
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Cross-References for Lamentations 2:19
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“you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.”
“with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth”
“I prevented the dawning of the morning”
“I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.”
“while it was still dark”
“No”
“Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.”
“my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth”
“Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time”
“and the hundred men who were with him”