34 Bible Verses about Tears

You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book?

for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”

and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”

When the lad was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times. And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept the more.

Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep.

I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.

“My face is flushed from weeping,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, 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 fail because of tears,
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is poured out on the earth
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.

My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said, “Before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

And following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him.

For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,

Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.

“This is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because He no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.

He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day, longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.

In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.

Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

Return to your rest, O my soul,
For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
For You have rescued my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
My feet from stumbling.
I shall walk before the Lord
In the land of the living.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.

that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.”

Now while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly.

Jesus wept.