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.
Cry out in the night - (Psalms 119:147, "I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried"). In the beginning of the watches - i:e., the first of the three equal divisions (four hours each) into which the ancient Jews divided the night, namely, from sunset to ten o'clock. The second was called "the middle watch" (Judges 7:19), from ten until two o'clock. The third "the morning watch," from two to sunrise (Exodus 14:24; 1 Samuel 11:11). Afterward, under the Romans, they had four watches (Matthew 14:25; Luke 12:38).
Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children - that God, if He will not spare thee, may at least preserve "thy young children."
Faint for hunger in the top of every street - (Isaiah 51:20, "Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets;" Nahum 3:10).
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