19 “Arise, (A)cry out in the night,
    at the beginning of the night watches!
(B)Pour out your heart like water
    before the presence of the Lord!
(C)Lift your hands to him
    for the lives of your children,
(D)who faint for hunger
    at the head of every street.”

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19 Arise, cry out in the night,
    as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart(A) like water
    in the presence of the Lord.(B)
Lift up your hands(C) to him
    for the lives of your children,
who faint(D) from hunger
    at every street corner.

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(A)Trust in him at all times, O people;
    (B)pour out your heart before him;
    God is (C)a refuge for us. Selah

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Trust in him at all times, you people;(A)
    pour out your hearts to him,(B)
    for God is our refuge.

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My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
(A)For when your judgments are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

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My soul yearns for you in the night;(A)
    in the morning my spirit longs(B) for you.
When your judgments(C) come upon the earth,
    the people of the world learn righteousness.(D)

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147 I rise before (A)dawn and cry for help;
    I (B)hope in your words.
148 My eyes are awake before (C)the watches of the night,
    that I may meditate on your promise.

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147 I rise before dawn(A) and cry for help;
    I have put my hope in your word.
148 My eyes stay open through the watches of the night,(B)
    that I may meditate on your promises.

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I (A)pour out my complaint before him;
    I tell my trouble before him.

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I pour out before him my complaint;(A)
    before him I tell my trouble.(B)

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Jesus Preaches in Galilee

35 (A)And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and (B)there he prayed.

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Jesus Prays in a Solitary Place(A)

35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.(B)

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15 But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but (A)I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.

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15 “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled.(A) I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring(B) out my soul to the Lord.

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Let (A)my prayer be counted as incense before you,
    and (B)the lifting up of my hands as (C)the evening sacrifice!

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May my prayer be set before you like incense;(A)
    may the lifting up of my hands(B) be like the evening sacrifice.(C)

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11 (A)My eyes are spent with weeping;
    (B)my stomach churns;
(C)my bile is poured out to the ground
    (D)because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
(E)because infants and babies (F)faint
    in the streets of the city.

12 They cry to their mothers,
    (G)“Where is bread and wine?”
(H)as they faint like a wounded man
    in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
    on their mothers' bosom.

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11 My eyes fail from weeping,(A)
    I am in torment within(B);
my heart(C) is poured out(D) on the ground
    because my people are destroyed,(E)
because children and infants faint(F)
    in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers,
    “Where is bread and wine?”(G)
as they faint like the wounded
    in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away(H)
    in their mothers’ arms.(I)

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By day the Lord (A)commands his steadfast love,
    and at (B)night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.

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By day the Lord directs his love,(A)
    at night(B) his song(C) is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.(D)

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Gideon Defeats Midian

19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

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19 Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars(A) that were in their hands.

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The Twelve Apostles

12 In these days (A)he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.

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The Twelve Apostles(A)

12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.(B)

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35 (A)Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, (B)in the evening, or (C)at midnight, or (D)when the rooster crows,[a] or (E)in the morning—

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 13:35 That is, the third watch of the night, between midnight and 3 a.m.

35 “Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.

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