34 Bible Verses about Tears

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Psalm 56:8

Thou number my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book?

1 Samuel 20:41

And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. And they kissed each other, and wept one with another until David surpassed [him].

1 Samuel 30:4

Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears.

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 80:5

Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Psalm 126:6

He who goes forth and weeps, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 3:48

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Luke 23:27

And a great multitude of the people followed him, and also of women who bewailed and lamented him.

Psalm 84:6

Passing through the valley of weeping they make it a place of springs. Yea, the early rain covers it with blessings.

Malachi 2:13

And this again ye do: Ye cover the altar of LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallowed up death in victory, and lord LORD will wipe away tears from off all faces. And he will take away the reproach of his people from off all the earth. For LORD has spoken it.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Luke 6:21

Blessed are those who hunger now, because ye will be filled. Blessed are those who weep now, because ye will laugh.

2 Timothy 1:3-4

I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day longing to see thee, having remembered thy tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

Hebrews 5:7

Who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with strong shouting and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence,

James 4:9

Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.

Psalm 116:7-9

Return to thy rest, O my soul, for LORD has dealt bountifully with thee. For thou have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. I will walk before LORD in the land of the living.

Hebrews 12:16-17

lest a fornicator or profane man like Esau, who, in place of one meal sold his birthright. For ye also know that wanting afterward to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though having sought it with tears.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children, for the people wept very muc

From Thematic Bible


Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears

Psalm 56:8

Thou number my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book?

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners

Psalm 126:6

He who goes forth and weeps, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief

Psalm 80:5

Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears.

Job 30:31

Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Tears » Observed by God

Psalm 56:8

Thou number my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book?

Isaiah 38:3-5

and said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly. Then the word of LORD came to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says LORD, the God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer. I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

Tears » Wiped away

Tears » None in heaven

Tears » Figurative

Psalm 80:5

Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

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