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Lamentations 2:19

Lamentations chapter 2 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.18Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

v.19This passage

v.20See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Judges 7:19

    So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

  • Lamentations 4:1

    How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

  • Psalms 119:55

    I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, And have observed thy law.

  • Lamentations 2:11

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Job 3:24

    For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

  • 1 Timothy 2:8

    I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.