Lamentations 2:19
Hebrew Text— Lamentations 2:19Arise, 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, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
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Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.
Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.
But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them.
“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.
After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.
What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;
Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
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.
I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
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. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
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.
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
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;
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.
No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
“Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?” says Yahweh of Armies.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
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.