Lamentaciones 2:19
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.
Context
This verse from Lamentaciones Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Dios es descrito como adversario que devoró a Israel sin misericordia, destruyó los palacios y derribó los muros de Jerusalén. El poeta ruega que Dios considere su angustia.
Otras traducciones
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.
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.
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Referencias cruzadas
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning …
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither …
And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that …
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy …
Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, …
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. …
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.