Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Immediately the father of the child exclaimed, "I believe. Help my unbelief."
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
Thirst » Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mind
He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." He who hears, let him say, "Come." He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
"Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters. Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the word of the LORD, and will not find it. In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint for thirst.
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" read more.
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I do not get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."