34 Bible Verses about Tears
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You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; [are they] not in your book?
because the Lamb [who is] in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and will lead them to springs of living waters, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist [any] longer, and mourning or wailing or pain will not exist [any] longer. The former [things] have passed away."
The boy left, and then David got up from the south side, and he fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed {each other} and wept {together}, but David [wept] the most.
Then David and the people who [were] with him raised their voices and wept until there was not [enough] strength in them to weep.
I am weary with my groaning; {I flood} my bed every night. With my tears {I drench} my couch.
Be gracious [to] me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, [along with] my soul and my {body}.
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.
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 [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.
He who diligently goes [out] with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come [in] with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves.
{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.
My eyes have {spent all their tears}; {my stomach} is in torment, {my heart} is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in [the] public squares of a city.
Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
And Peter remembered the statement Jesus had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times," and he went outside [and] wept bitterly.
And a great crowd of the people were following him, and of women who were mourning and lamenting him.
For many live, of whom I spoke about to you many times, but now speak about even weeping, [as] the enemies of the cross of Christ,
Passing through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The early rain covers [it with] blessings as well.
And this you do {as well}: [you] cover the altar of Yahweh [with] tears, [with] weeping and [with] groaning, because he {no longer regards the offering} or accepts [it] [with] favor from your hand.
He will {destroy} death forever, and the Lord Yahweh will wipe off [the] tears from all faces, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken.
And I will make Jerusalem as heaps [of ruins], a lair of jackals, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation, {without inhabitants}.
Blessed [are] those who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. Blessed [are] those who weep now, Because you will laugh.
{I am thankful} to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience {as my ancestors did}, when {I remember you constantly} in my prayers night and day, longing to see you [as I] remember your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,
who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence.
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess.
Return, O my soul, to your repose, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you. For you have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened 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.
[that] no one [be] a sexually immoral or totally worldly [person] like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright. For you know that also afterwards, [when he] wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears.
While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered to him. And the people wept bitterly.
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Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears
You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; [are they] not in your book?
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.
He who diligently goes [out] with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come [in] with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves.
Therefore I said, "Look away from me, let me {weep bitterly}; you must not insist on comforting me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."
{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief
You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.
I am weary with my groaning; {I flood} my bed every night. With my tears {I drench} my couch.
So my lyre came to be [used] for mourning, and my flute [for the] voice of [those who] weep.
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears
Tears » Observed by God
You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; [are they] not in your book?
and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how I have walked before your {presence} in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept [with] great weeping. Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying, "Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. {Look, I am going to} add fifteen years to your days.
Tears » Wiped away
because the Lamb [who is] in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and will lead them to springs of living waters, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
Tears » None in heaven
And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist [any] longer, and mourning or wailing or pain will not exist [any] longer. The former [things] have passed away."
Tears » Figurative
You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.