34 Bible Verses about Tears

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Psalm 56:8

You have kept count of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle have not you recorded them in your book?

1 Samuel 20:41

The servant went. Then David came out from the south side of the rock, fell on his face, and bowed down three times. The men kissed each other, and both of them cried, but David even more.

1 Samuel 30:4

Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and cried until they had no more strength left to cry.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

Job 16:16

My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?"

Psalm 80:5

You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.

Psalm 126:6

The one who goes out weeping, carrying a bag of seeds, will surely return with a joyful song, bearing sheaves from his harvest. A Solomonic Song of Ascents

Jeremiah 9:1

"Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, for then I would cry day and night for those of my people who have been killed.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out from crying, my insides are churning, My emotions pour out in grief because my people are destroyed Children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes run with rivers of tears over the destruction of my cherished people.

Luke 23:27

A large crowd of people followed him, including some women who kept mourning and wailing for him.

Psalm 84:6

They will pass through the Baca Valley where he will prepare a spring for them; even the early rain will cover it with blessings.

Malachi 2:13

"This is another thing you do: you flood the altar of the LORD with tears, weeping and wailing because he no longer pays attention to your offering nor takes pleasure in it from your hand.

Isaiah 25:8

he has swallowed up death forever! Then the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces, and he will take away the disgrace of his people from the entire earth." for the LORD has spoken.

Jeremiah 9:11

"I'll make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals. I'll make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants."

Luke 6:21

How blessed are you who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied! How blessed are you who are crying now, because you will laugh!

2 Timothy 1:3-4

I constantly thank my God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did when I remember you in my prayers night and day, recalling your tears and longing to see you so that I can be filled with joy.

Hebrews 5:7

As a mortal man, he offered up prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his devotion to God.

James 4:9

Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.

Psalm 116:7-9

Return to your resting place, my soul, for the LORD treated you generously. Indeed, you delivered my soul from death, my eyes from crying, and my feet from stumbling. I will walk in the LORD's presence in the lands of the living.

Hebrews 12:16-17

No one should be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he could not find any opportunity to repent, even though he begged to repent with tears.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra was praying and confessing in tears, having prostrated himself to the ground before the Temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelis men, women, and children gathered around him. Indeed, the people were crying bitterly.

From Thematic Bible


Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears

Psalm 56:8

You have kept count of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle have not you recorded them in your book?

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners

Psalm 126:6

The one who goes out weeping, carrying a bag of seeds, will surely return with a joyful song, bearing sheaves from his harvest. A Solomonic Song of Ascents

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said: "Look away from me; and let me weep bitter tears; don't try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Jeremiah 9:1

"Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, for then I would cry day and night for those of my people who have been killed.

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief

Psalm 80:5

You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

Job 30:31

But my harp is in mourning; my flute plays only songs for those who are weeping."

Psalm 102:9

I have eaten ashes as food and mixed my drink with tears

Tears » Observed by God

Psalm 56:8

You have kept count of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle have not you recorded them in your book?

Isaiah 38:3-5

"Please, LORD," he said, "Remember how I have walked before you faithfully and with a true heart, and I have done what pleases you." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. Then this message from the LORD came to Isaiah: "Go tell Hezekiah, "This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David has to say: "I've heard your prayer and I've seen your tears; so I will add fifteen years to your life.

Tears » Wiped away

Tears » None in heaven

Tears » Figurative

Psalm 80:5

You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.

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