34 Bible Verses about Tears

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Psalm 56:8

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?

1 Samuel 20:41

As soon as the boy was gone, David arose from beside the mound, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.

1 Samuel 30:4

Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Psalm 39:12

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 80:5

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

Psalm 126:6

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out from weeping, my stomach is churning. My heart is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 3:48

Streams of tears run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Luke 23:27

A great crowd of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

Psalm 84:6

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

Malachi 2:13

This again you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

Isaiah 25:8

He has swallowed up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the LORD has spoken it.

Jeremiah 9:11

"I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."

Luke 6:21

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

2 Timothy 1:3-4

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

James 4:9

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Psalm 116:7-9

Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

Hebrews 12:16-17

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his own birthright for one meal. For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

Ezra 10:1

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God's house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

From Thematic Bible


Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears

Psalm 56:8

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners

Psalm 126:6

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, 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

Psalm 80:5

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

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Job 30:31

Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Tears » Observed by God

Psalm 56:8

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?

Isaiah 38:3-5

and said, "Remember now, the LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly. Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, "Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Tears » Wiped away

Tears » None in heaven

Tears » Figurative

Psalm 80:5

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

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