34 Bible Verses about Tears
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You Yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your records?
For the Lamb who is at the center of the throne
will shepherd them;
He will guide them to springs of living waters,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Death will no longer exist;
grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer,
because the previous things have passed away.
When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone Ezel, fell with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept with each other, though David wept more.
David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep.
I am weary from my groaning;
with my tears I dampen my pillow
and drench my bed every night.
Be gracious to me, Lord,
because I am in distress;
my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—
my whole being as well.
“Hear my prayer, Lord,
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.
For I am a foreigner residing with You,
a temporary resident like all my fathers.
My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”
You fed them the bread of tears
and gave them a full measure
of tears to drink.
Though one goes along weeping,
carrying the bag of seed,
he will surely come back with shouts of joy,
carrying his sheaves.
If my head were a spring of water,
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear people.
כ KafMy eyes are worn out from weeping;
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief
because of the destruction of my dear people,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
My eyes flow with streams of tears
because of the destruction of my dear people.
and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
A large crowd of people followed Him, including women who were mourning and lamenting Him.
For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they make it a source of springwater;
even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings.
And this is another thing you do: you cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer respects your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.
He will destroy death forever.
The Lord God will wipe away the tears
from every face
and remove His people’s disgrace
from the whole earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble,
a jackals’ den.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
an uninhabited place.
You who are now hungry are blessed,
because you will be filled.
You who now weep are blessed,
because you will laugh.
I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day. Remembering your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy,
During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.
Return to your rest, my soul,
for the Lord has been good to you.
For You, Lord, rescued me from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling.
I will walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.
serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews—
Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal. For you know that later, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he didn’t find any opportunity for repentance, though he sought it with tears.
While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.
From Thematic Bible
Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your records?
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners
Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
carrying the bag of seed,
he will surely come back with shouts of joy,
carrying his sheaves.
“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!
Do not try to comfort me
about the destruction of my dear
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief
and gave them a full measure
of tears to drink.
with my tears I dampen my pillow
and drench my bed every night.
and mingle my drinks with tears
Tears » Observed by God
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your records?
He said, "Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: "Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add 15 years to your life.
Tears » Wiped away
will shepherd them;
He will guide them to springs of living waters,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Tears » None in heaven
Death will no longer exist;
grief, crying, and pain will exist no longer,
because the previous things
Tears » Figurative
and gave them a full measure
of tears to drink.