Lamentations 2:19
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19 “Arise, (A)cry out in the night,
At the beginning of the watches;
(B)Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward Him
For the life of your young children,
Who faint from hunger (C)at the head of every street.”
Psalm 62:8
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8 Trust in Him at all times, you people;
(A)Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us. Selah
Isaiah 26:9
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9 (A)With my soul I have desired You in the night,
Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early;
For when Your judgments are in the earth,
The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Psalm 119:147-148
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147 (A)I rise before the dawning of the morning,
And cry for help;
I hope in Your word.
148 (B)My eyes are awake through the night watches,
That I may meditate on Your word.
Psalm 142:2
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2 I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare before Him my trouble.
1 Samuel 1:15
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15 But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor intoxicating drink, but have (A)poured out my soul before the Lord.
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Psalm 141:2
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2 Let my prayer be set before You (A)as incense,
(B)The lifting up of my hands as (C)the evening sacrifice.
Lamentations 2:11-12
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11 (A)My eyes fail with tears,
My [a]heart is troubled;
(B)My [b]bile is poured on the ground
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because (C)the children and the infants
Faint in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they swoon like the wounded
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
In their mothers’ bosom.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. inward parts
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. liver
Psalm 42:8
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8 The Lord will (A)command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And (B)in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.
Judges 7:19
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19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
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Luke 6:12
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The Twelve Apostles(A)
12 Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in (B)prayer to God.
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Mark 13:35
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35 (A)Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning—
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Matthew 14:25
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25 Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.
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Psalm 119:55
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55 (A)I remember Your name in the night, O Lord,
And I keep Your law.
Psalm 28:2
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2 Hear the voice of my supplications
When I cry to You,
(A)When I lift up my hands (B)toward Your holy sanctuary.
Isaiah 51:20
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20 (A)Your sons have fainted,
They lie at the head of all the streets,
Like an antelope in a net;
They are full of the fury of the Lord,
The rebuke of your God.
1 Timothy 2:8
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Men and Women in the Church
8 I desire therefore that the men pray (A)everywhere, (B)lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;
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Ezekiel 5:16
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16 When I (A)send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your (B)supply of bread.
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Ezekiel 5:10
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10 Therefore fathers (A)shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will (B)scatter to all the winds.
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Lamentations 4:1-9
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The Degradation of Zion
4 How the gold has become dim!
How changed the fine gold!
The stones of the sanctuary are [a]scattered
At the head of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion,
[b]Valuable as fine gold,
How they are [c]regarded (A)as clay pots,
The work of the hands of the potter!
3 Even the jackals present their breasts
To nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people is cruel,
(B)Like ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(C)The young children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
5 Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those who were brought up in scarlet
(D)Embrace ash heaps.
6 The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the (E)sin of Sodom,
Which was (F)overthrown in a moment,
With no hand to help her!
7 Her [d]Nazirites were [e]brighter than snow
And whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
Like sapphire in their [f]appearance.
8 Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
(G)Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.
9 Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these (H)pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the (I)field.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:1 Lit. poured out
- Lamentations 4:2 Lit. Weighed against
- Lamentations 4:2 reckoned
- Lamentations 4:7 Or nobles
- Lamentations 4:7 Or purer
- Lamentations 4:7 Lit. polishing
Psalm 134:2
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2 (A)Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,
And bless the Lord.
Psalm 63:4
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4 Thus I will bless You while I live;
I will (A)lift up my hands in Your name.
Job 3:24
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24 For my sighing comes before [a]I eat,
And my groanings pour out like water.
Footnotes
- Job 3:24 Lit. my bread
1 Samuel 7:6
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6 So they gathered together at Mizpah, (A)drew water, and poured it out before the Lord. And they (B)fasted that day, and said there, (C)“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah.
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