19Arise, 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. …
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)Justly are these called Lamentations , and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel’s roll, Ezek. 2:10. I. Copies of lamentations are here presented and they are painted to the life. 1. The judges and magistrates, who used to appear in robes of state, have laid them aside, or rather are stripped of them, a…
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