34 Bible Verses about Tears

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Psalm 56:8

You have kept account of my wandering. Put my tears in your skin bottle. Are they not in your book?

1 Samuel 20:41

After the boy left, David got up from behind the pile of stones. He fell on his knees and bowed with his face to the ground three times. Both he and Jonathan cried as they kissed each other. David's grief was even greater than Jonathan's.

1 Samuel 30:4

David and his men cried loudly until they did not have the strength to cry anymore.

Psalm 6:6

I am worn out from groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Job 16:16

My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eyes, my life, and my body waste away with grief.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers.

Psalm 80:5

You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

Psalm 126:6

The person who goes out weeping, carrying his bag of seed, will come home singing, carrying his bundles of grain.

Jeremiah 9:1

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

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Lamentations 3:48

Rivers of water run down from my eyes because pf the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Luke 23:27

A great crowd of people followed. Many women cried and grieved over him.

Psalm 84:6

As they pass through the dry valley of Baca, it becomes a place of springs; the autumn rain fills it with pools.

Malachi 2:13

Another thing you do is drown Jehovah's altar with tears, weeping and wailing. This is because he no longer accepts the offerings you bring him.

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. He will take away the disgrace of His people from the earth. Jehovah has spoken!

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. It will be a gathering place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolation, without inhabitant.

Luke 6:21

Blessed are you who hunger now for you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now: for you shall laugh.

2 Timothy 1:3-4

I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as my forefathers did, that without ceasing, I remember you in my prayers, day and night. I greatly desire to see you, being mindful of your tears, for this will fill me with joy.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his life on earth, when he [Christ] offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save him out of death, and was heard because of his godly reverence. (Galatians 1:1) (Psalm 69:13)

James 4:9

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Psalm 116:7-9

I will be at peace again because Jehovah has been good to you. You saved me from death. You saved my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling. I will walk in Jehovah's presence in the land of the living.

Hebrews 12:16-17

Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau. He sold his birthright for a single meal! Afterward, you know, he wanted to receive (inherit) his father's blessing. He was turned back, because he could not find any way to change what he had done. He was in tears when he looked for it.

Ezra 10:1

While Ezra was saying his prayer and his confession of wrongdoing he wept and fell down before the house of God. A very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together around him, for the people were weeping bitterly.

From Thematic Bible


Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears

Psalm 56:8

You have kept account of my wandering. Put my tears in your skin bottle. Are they not in your book?

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners

Psalm 126:6

The person who goes out weeping, carrying his bag of seed, will come home singing, carrying his bundles of grain.

Isaiah 22:4

I said: Turn away from me. Let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears. Then 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 made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

Psalm 6:6

I am worn out from groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Job 30:31

Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, and my flute to the sound of those who weep.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping.

Tears » Observed by God

Psalm 56:8

You have kept account of my wandering. Put my tears in your skin bottle. Are they not in your book?

Isaiah 38:3-5

Remember, Jehovah, that I have served you faithfully and loyally. I have always tried to do what you wanted me to. Then he cried bitterly. Then Jehovah commanded Isaiah to go back to Hezekiah and say to him: I Jehovah, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen more years to your life.

Tears » Wiped away

Tears » None in heaven

Tears » Figurative

Psalm 80:5

You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

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