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.

cry out

Psalm 42:8 In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle to him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 62:8 Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

Psalm 119:55,147,148 In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law. . . .

Isaiah 26:9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Mark 1:35 And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.

Luke 6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.

watches

Judges 7:19 And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch, and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.

Matthew 14:25 And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking upon the sea.

Mark 13:35 Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning):

pour

1 Samuel 1:15 Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for I am an exceeding unhappy woman, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:6 And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath.

Job 3:24 Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

Psalm 62:8 Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

Psalm 142:2 In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:

lift up

Psalm 28:2 Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.

Psalm 63:4 Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.

Psalm 134:2 In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord.

Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

that faint

Lamentations 2:11,12 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city. . . .

Lamentations 4:1-9 Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street? . . .

Isaiah 51:20 Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all the ways, and the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the Lord, of the rebuke of thy God.

Ezekiel 5:10,16 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind. . . .

Nahum 3:10 Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.