33 Bible Verses about Tears

You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.

And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.

And when the boy had gone, David came from his secret place by the hill, and falling to the earth went down on his face three times: and they gave one another a kiss, weeping together, till David's grief was the greater.

Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.

And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,

And a great band of people went after him, and of women making signs of grief and weeping for him.

For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;

Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.

He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.

And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward. You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling. I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.

Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:

So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food. For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

Straight away the father of the child gave a cry, saying, I have faith; make my feeble faith stronger.

Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

And Jesus himself was weeping.