34 Bible Verses about Tears

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Psalm 56:8

My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?

1 Samuel 20:41

The youth hath gone, and David hath risen from Ezel, at the south, and falleth on his face to the earth, and boweth himself three times, and they kiss one another, and they weep one with another, till David exerted himself;

1 Samuel 30:4

And David lifteth up -- and the people who are with him -- their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep.

Psalm 6:6

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

Job 16:16

My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.

Psalm 31:9

Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

Psalm 42:3

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

Psalm 80:5

Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

Psalm 126:6

Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

Jeremiah 9:1

Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 2:11

Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

Lamentations 3:48

Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Matthew 26:75

and Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, he having said to him -- 'Before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me;' and having gone without, he did weep bitterly.

Luke 23:27

And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,

Psalm 84:6

Those passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.

Malachi 2:13

And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.

Isaiah 25:8

He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.

Luke 6:21

Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. 'Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

2 Timothy 1:3-4

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day, desiring greatly to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that with joy I may be filled,

Hebrews 5:7

who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,

James 4:9

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

Psalm 116:7-9

Turn back, O my soul, to thy rest, For Jehovah hath conferred benefits on thee. For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, my feet from overthrowing. I walk habitually before Jehovah In the lands of the living.

Hebrews 12:16-17

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright, for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

Ezra 10:1

And at Ezra's praying, and at his making confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there have been gathered unto him out of Israel an assembly very great -- men and women and children -- for the people have wept, multiplying weeping.

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Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears

Psalm 56:8

My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners

Psalm 126:6

Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, 'Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'

Jeremiah 9:1

Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief

Psalm 80:5

Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

Psalm 6:6

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

Job 30:31

And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

Psalm 102:9

Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

Tears » Observed by God

Psalm 56:8

My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?

Isaiah 38:3-5

and saith, 'I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping. And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying, Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, 'I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,

Tears » Wiped away

Tears » None in heaven

Tears » Figurative

Psalm 80:5

Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

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