34 Bible Verses about Tears

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Psalm 56:8

Thou didst recount my wanderings: set thou my tears in thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

1 Samuel 20:41

The boy went, and David rose from the south side, and fell upon his face to the earth, and they will worship three times, and they will kiss each his friend, and they will weep, each with his friend, till David magnified.

1 Samuel 30:4

And David will lift up, and the people with him, their voice, and they will weep till power was not in them to weep.

Psalm 6:6

I was wearied with my sighing all the night I shall make my bed to swim with my tears; I shall make my couch to flow.

Job 16:16

My face became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death

Psalm 31:9

Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.

Psalm 80:5

Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.

Psalm 126:6

He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.

Jeremiah 9:1

Who will give my head waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears? and I will weep day and night for the wounded of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes failed with tears, my bowels were in a ferment, my liver was poured out to the earth, upon the breaking of the daughter of my people; in the fainting of the child and suckling in the wide places of the city.

Lamentations 3:48

Mine eye will bring down streams of water for the breaking of the daughter of my people.

Matthew 26:75

And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, having said to him, That before the cock utter a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice. And having gone forth without, he wept bitterly.

Luke 23:27

And a great multitude of people followed him, and of women, and who were lamenting bitterly, and bewailing him.

Psalm 84:6

Passing through in the valley of Baca they will set it a fountain; also the early rain will cover the ponds.

Malachi 2:13

And this ye will do the second time, covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, with weepings and shrieks, from not any more looking to the gift, and to take delight from your hand.

Isaiah 25:8

He swallowed up death for glory, the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people he will remove from off all the earth, for Jehovah spake.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I gave Jerusalem for heaps and a dwelling of jackals; and the cities of Judah I will give a desolation from none inhabiting.

Luke 6:21

Happy the hungering now: for ye shall be satisfied. Happy the weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

2 Timothy 1:3-4

I have grace to God, whom I serve from the forefathers in pure consciousness, as I have continual remembrance concerning thee in my prayers night and day; Desiring earnestly to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;

James 4:9

Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection.

Psalm 116:7-9

Turn back, O my soul, to thy rest; for Jehovah benefited to thee. For thou deliveredst my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from a fall. I will go about before Jehovah in the lands of the living.

Hebrews 12:16-17

Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture. For ye know also afterwards, wishing to inherit the praise, he was disapproved of: for he found no place for a change of mind, although having sought it with tears.

Ezra 10:1

And as Ezra prayed, and as he confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there were gathered to him from Israel a very great convocation of men and women and children: for the people wept a great weeping.

From Thematic Bible


Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears

Psalm 56:8

Thou didst recount my wanderings: set thou my tears in thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners

Psalm 126:6

He going, shall go; and weeping he lifted up the drawing of the seed: coming, he shall come with joy, lifting up his sheaves.

Isaiah 22:4

For this I said, Look ye away from me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye shall not hasten to comfort me upon the desolation of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:1

Who will give my head waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears? and I will weep day and night for the wounded of the daughter of my people.

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief

Psalm 80:5

Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.

Psalm 6:6

I was wearied with my sighing all the night I shall make my bed to swim with my tears; I shall make my couch to flow.

Job 30:31

And my harp will be for mourning, and my pipe for the voice of those weeping.

Psalm 102:9

For I ate ashes as bread, and I mingled my drink with weeping.

Tears » Observed by God

Psalm 56:8

Thou didst recount my wanderings: set thou my tears in thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Isaiah 38:3-5

And he will say, O Jehovah, remember now how I went before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I did the good in thine eyes: And Hezekiah will weep a great weeping. And the word of Jehovah will be to Isaiah, saying, Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer; and I saw thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

Tears » Wiped away

Tears » None in heaven

Tears » Figurative

Psalm 80:5

Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.

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