34 Bible Verses about Tears

You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?

because the Lamb in the middle of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more -- or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist."

When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, knelt with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?"

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.

I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.

(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,

A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.

As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

You also do this: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.

he will swallow up death permanently. The sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people's disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the Lord has announced it!

The Lord said, "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them."

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

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.

Rest once more, my soul, for the Lord has vindicated you. Yes, Lord, you rescued my life from death, and kept my feet from stumbling. I will serve the Lord in the land of the living.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

Immediately the father of the boy cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!"

While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites -- men, women, and children alike -- gathered around him. The people wept loudly.

Jesus wept.