34 Bible Verses about Tears
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Thou numberest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them, and will lead them to living fountains of waters: and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.
And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away.
And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place towards the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
Then David and the people that were with him, lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless return with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
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!
My eyes do 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 swoon in the streets of the city.
My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who said to him, Before the cock shall crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, who also bewailed and lamented him.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people will he remove from all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with 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;
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared;
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right. For ye know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
And immediately the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief.
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very bitterly.
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Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears
Thou numberest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless return with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the devastation of the daughter of my people.
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
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
And immediately the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Tears » Observed by God
Thou numberest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
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 bitterly. 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 to thy days fifteen years.
Tears » Wiped away
For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them, and will lead them to living fountains of waters: and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Tears » None in heaven
And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things have passed away.
Tears » Figurative
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.