River of Tears

Lamentations 2: 18 O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
v. 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the L-rd: lift up thy hands toward Him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
The wall is called on to weep for its own ruin and that of the city. May the hearts of mothers in their distress cry out, when they see the walls of the city and the government breaking down, they called unto the Father for help and protection. Some families are now without houses and inhabitants, only a broken wall standing, some remains and ruins in the lost of independence.
Incessantly, for the destruction and unhappiness made or intermission; but weeping continually for the way our society and family are heading. Pouring out tears is open and employed in beholding the miseries of the nation, and in deploring them, and for the wayward of our children.
Are we not affected by the desolations of the land; that we need to address the people, and urge them to plead with G-d day and night for their restoration. Our children are the apples of our eyes, let not your tears cease, for their salvation and guidance, calling on our Father to restore them to the fold.
The different watches of the night need to be covered with continual prayer. A day starts at 6 pm to 6 pm; there are 4 watches, broken down to three hours each.
1. 6 pm to 9 pm.
2. 9 pm to midnight
3. Midnight to 3 am.
4. 3 am to 6 am.
G-d visits the earth and brings a sudden revelation to those who are up praying and interceding.
You, watchmen on the walls (Isa. 62:6), “I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the L-rd, keep not silence.”
This intimates:
1. That the calamities would be continuing, and the causes of grief would frequently recur, and fresh occasion would be given them every day and every night to bemoan themselves.
2. That they would be apt, by degrees, to grow insensible and stupid under the hand of G-d, and would need to be still called upon to afflict their souls yet more and more, till their proud and hard hearts were thoroughly humbled and softened.
Causes for lamentation are here assigned, and the calamities that are to be bewailed are very particularly and pathetically described.
1. Multitudes perish by famine.
2. Multitudes fall by the sword.
3. Their false prophets cheated them, seen vain and foolish things for you; they pretended to discover for you the mind and will of G-d, to see the visions of the Almighty and then to speak His words; but they were all vain and foolish things; their visions were all their own fancies. They themselves knew that the visions they pretended were counterfeit, and all a sham, and made use of only to colour that which they designedly imposed upon the people with, that they might make an interest in them for themselves. They are you prophets, not G-d's prophets; He never sent them, nor were they pastors after His heart, but the people set them up, told them what they should say, so that they were prophets after their hearts. It is surprising how many people believe false prophets.
4. Their neighbors laughed at them.
5. Their enemies triumphed over them.
“How long must we cry rivers of tears, L-rd?”
Thus saith the L-rd in Hosea 4:6: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to Me: seeing you have forgotten the Law of your G-d, I will also forget your children. Your river of tears is lacking compared to My River of tears.”