Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner. New Living Translation Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer, pleading for your children, for in every street they are faint with hunger. English Standard Version “Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night 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.” Berean Standard Bible Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street. King James 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. New King James Version “Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; 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 at the head of every street.” New American Standard Bible “Arise, whimper in the night At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Raise your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who languish because of hunger At the head of every street. NASB 1995 “Arise, cry aloud in the night At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street.” NASB 1977 “Arise, cry aloud in the night At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street.” Legacy Standard Bible Arise, cry aloud in the night At the head of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your infants Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street.” Amplified Bible “Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who are faint from hunger At the head of every street.” Christian Standard Bible Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water before the Lord’s presence. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger at the head of every street. Holman Christian Standard Bible Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water before the Lord’s presence. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street. American Standard Version Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy 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 at the head of every street. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Qoph Arise, sing in the night at first watch, and pour out your heart like waters before the face of LORD JEHOVAH! Raise to him your hands for the souls of your little children who are suffering with hunger at the top of all the streets! Brenton Septuagint Translation KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of thy watch: pour out thy heart as water before the face of the Lord lift up thy hands to him for the life of thine infants, who faint for hunger at the top of all the streets. Contemporary English Version Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing. Douay-Rheims Bible Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets. English Revised Version Arise, cry out in the night, at 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 at the top of every street. GOD'S WORD® Translation Get up! Cry out at night, every hour on the hour. Pour your heart out like water in the presence of the LORD. Lift up your hands to him [in prayer] for the life of your little children who faint from hunger at every street corner." Good News Translation All through the night get up again and again to cry out to the Lord; Pour out your heart and beg him for mercy on your children--Children starving to death on every street corner! International Standard Version Get up and cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of every hour. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord! Lift up your hands toward him for the lives of your children, who are fainting away at every street corner. JPS Tanakh 1917 Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy 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 At the head of every street.' Literal Standard Version Arise, cry aloud in the night, | At the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart as water, | Before the face of the Lord, | Lift up to Him your hands, for the soul of your infants, | Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places. Majority Standard Bible Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street. New American Bible Rise up! Wail in the night, at the start of every watch; Pour out your heart like water before the Lord; Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, Who collapse from hunger at the corner of every street. NET Bible Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner. New Revised Standard Version 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. New Heart English Bible Arise, 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, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. Webster's Bible Translation Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands towards him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. World English Bible Arise, 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. Young's Literal Translation Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places. Additional Translations ... Context God's Anger over Jerusalem…18The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest. 19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street. 20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?… Cross References 1 Samuel 1:15 "No, my lord," Hannah replied. "I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD. 1 Samuel 7:6 When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah. Psalm 28:2 Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary. Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, "Where is your God?" Psalm 42:4 These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise. Psalm 62:8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah Isaiah 26:9 My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. Treasury of Scripture Arise, cry out in the night: in 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, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. cry out Psalm 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. Psalm 62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. Psalm 119:55,147,148 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law… watches Judges 7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. Mark 13:35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: pour 1 Samuel 1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD. 1 Samuel 7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh. Job 3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. lift up Psalm 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. Psalm 63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. Psalm 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. that faint Lamentations 2:11,12 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city… Lamentations 4:1-9 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street… Isaiah 51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. Jump to Previous Arise Beginning Children Cry Face Faint Hands Head Heart Hunger Lift Night Pour Street Top Towards Watches Water YoungJump to Next Arise Beginning Children Cry Face Faint Hands Head Heart Hunger Lift Night Pour Street Top Towards Watches Water YoungLamentations 2 1. Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem20. He complains thereof to God (19) In the beginning of the watches--i.e., of each watch, so that the lamentation was continued throughout the night. Lift up thy hands.--The wall is still addressed in its character as a mourner, beholding the children dying of hunger and lifting up her hands as in despairing supplication for them. Verse 19. - In the beginning of the watches. This would seem to be most naturally explained as referring to the first watch of the night. When most are wrapped in their first and sweetest sleep, the daughter of Zion is to "arise and cry." Others explain, "at the beginning of each of the night watches;" i.e. all the night through. Previously to the Roman times, the Jews had divided the night into three watches (comp. Judges 3:19). Pour out thine heart like water; i.e. give free course to thy complaint, shedding tears meanwhile. The expression is parallel partly to phrases like "I am poured out like water" (Psalm 22:14), partly to "Pour out your heart before him" (Psalm 62:8). In the top of every street; rather, at every street corner (and so Lamentations 4:1).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Arise,ק֣וּמִי ׀ (qū·mî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand cry out רֹ֣נִּי (rōn·nî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 7442: To give a ringing cry in the night בַלַּ֗יְלָה (ḇal·lay·lāh) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity from the first לְרֹאשׁ֙ (lə·rōš) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7218: The head watch of the night. אַשְׁמֻר֔וֹת (’aš·mu·rō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 821: A night watch Pour out שִׁפְכִ֤י (šip̄·ḵî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out your heart לִבֵּ֔ךְ (lib·bêḵ) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre like water כַמַּ֙יִם֙ (ḵam·ma·yim) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen in נֹ֖כַח (nō·ḵaḥ) Preposition Strong's 5227: The front part, opposite, in front of, forward, in behalf of the presence פְּנֵ֣י (pə·nê) Noun - common plural construct Strong's 6440: The face of the Lord. אֲדֹנָ֑י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 136: The Lord Lift up שְׂאִ֧י (śə·’î) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take your hands כַּפַּ֗יִךְ (kap·pa·yiḵ) Noun - fdc | second person feminine singular Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan to Him אֵלָ֣יו (’ê·lāw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to for עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the lives נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙ (ne·p̄eš) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion of your children עֽוֹלָלַ֔יִךְ (‘ō·w·lā·la·yiḵ) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 5768: A suckling who are fainting הָעֲטוּפִ֥ים (hā·‘ă·ṭū·p̄îm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 5848: To shroud, clothe, to languish from hunger בְּרָעָ֖ב (bə·rā·‘āḇ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger on the corner בְּרֹ֥אשׁ (bə·rōš) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7218: The head of every כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every street. חוּצֽוֹת׃ (ḥū·ṣō·wṯ) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors Links Lamentations 2:19 NIVLamentations 2:19 NLT Lamentations 2:19 ESV Lamentations 2:19 NASB Lamentations 2:19 KJV Lamentations 2:19 BibleApps.com Lamentations 2:19 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 2:19 Chinese Bible Lamentations 2:19 French Bible Lamentations 2:19 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 2:19 Arise cry out in the night at (Lam. 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