34 Bible Verses about Tears

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Psalm 56:8

Thou tellest my wanderings; put 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 Negev and fell on his face to the ground and bowed himself three times, and they kissed one another and wept one with another, although David exceeded.

1 Samuel 30:4

Then David and the people that 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; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears.

Job 16:16

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

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 80:5

Thou dost feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Psalm 126:6

He that goes forth and weeps, bearing the precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

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

Caph My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 3:48

Pe My eyes stream with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Luke 23:27

And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, who also bewailed and lamented him.

Psalm 84:6

who passing through the valley of Baca, shall make it a well; the rain also shall fill the pools.

Malachi 2:13

And once again ye shall cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, for I shall not even look at the offering any more to receive a free will offering from your hand.

Isaiah 25:8

He will destroy death forever; and the Lord GOD shall wipe away every tear from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people he shall take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has determined it.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Luke 6:21

Blessed are those that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed are those that weep now, for ye shall laugh.

2 Timothy 1:3-4

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see thee (being mindful of thy tears), that I may be filled with joy,

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, was heard because of his reverent fear;

James 4:9

Be afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.

Psalm 116:7-9

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

Hebrews 12:16-17

lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Ezra 10:1

Now as Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children; and the people wept very sore.

From Thematic Bible


Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears

Psalm 56:8

Thou tellest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book?

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners

Psalm 126:6

He that goes forth and weeps, bearing the precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, Leave me; I will weep bitterly; do not labour to comfort me of 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 dost feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears.

Job 30:31

My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that 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 tellest my wanderings; put 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 sore. Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Tears » Wiped away

Tears » None in heaven

Tears » Figurative

Psalm 80:5

Thou dost feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

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