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

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

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

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

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

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A Preaching Tour in Galilee

35 In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.(A)

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

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11 My eyes are spent with weeping;
    my stomach churns;
my bile is poured out on the ground
    because of the destruction of my people,[a]
because infants and babes faint
    in the streets of the city.(A)

12 They cry to their mothers,
    “Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like the wounded
    in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
    on their mothers’ bosoms.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.11 Heb the daughter of my people

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you
    and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.(A)

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

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Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

12 Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.(A)

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35 Therefore, keep awake, for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening or at midnight or at cockcrow or at dawn,(A)

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25 And early in the morning he came walking toward them on the sea.

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Hear the voice of my supplication,
    as I cry to you for help,
as I lift up my hands
    toward your most holy sanctuary.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 28.2 Heb your innermost sanctuary

19 So Gideon and the hundred 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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20 Your children have fainted;
    they lie at the head of every street
    like an antelope in a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
    the rebuke of your God.(A)

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55 I remember your name in the night, O Lord,
    and keep your law.(A)

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I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument,

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16 when I loose against you[a] my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.16 Heb them
  2. 5.16 Heb staff of bread

10 Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.(A)

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The Punishment of Zion

How the gold has grown dim;
    how the pure gold is changed!
The sacred stones lie scattered
    at the head of every street.

The precious children of Zion,
    worth their weight in fine gold—
how they are reckoned as earthen pots,
    the work of a potter’s hands!(A)

Even the jackals offer the breast
    and nurse their young,
but my people has become cruel,
    like the ostriches in the wilderness.(B)

The tongue of the infant sticks
    to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
the children beg for food,
    but there is nothing for them.(C)

Those who feasted on delicacies
    perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
    cling to ash heaps.

For the chastisement of my people has been greater
    than the punishment of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
    though no hand was laid on it.[a](D)

Her princes were purer than snow,
    whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
    their form cut like sapphire.[b](E)

Now their visage is blacker than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
    it has become as dry as wood.(F)

Happier were those pierced by the sword
    than those pierced by hunger,
whose life drains away, deprived
    of the produce of the field.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 4.7 Or lapis lazuli

Lift up your hands to the holy place,
    and bless the Lord.(A)

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So I will bless you as long as I live;
    I will lift up my hands and call on your name.(A)

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24 For my sighing comes like[a] my bread,
    and my groanings are poured out like water.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.24 Heb before

So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.(A)

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