64 Bible Verses about Weeping

Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to cry because of her death.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?

I wept much because no one was found worthy to open, look inside, and read the book.

Esau pleaded: Father, please! Do you have only one blessing, Father? Bless me too, Father! Esau broke down and wept.

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

She asked her father: Do this for me. Leave me alone for two months, so that I can go with my friends to wander in the mountains and grieve that I must die a virgin.

May Jehovah make it possible for each of you to marry again and have a home. Then Naomi kissed them good-bye and they cried.

Her husband Elkanah said to her: Hannah, why are you weeping? Why are you not eating? Why is your heart troubled? Am I not more to you than ten sons?

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.

Paltiel followed Michal and the men all the way to Bahurim. He cried all the way. But he went back home after Abner ordered him to leave.

Tamar tore the robe she was wearing. She put ashes on her head. Then she covered her face with her hands. She cried loudly as she walked away.

David went up the slope of the Mount of Olives. He was barefoot and crying. He covered his head to show his sorrow. Everyone with him was crying. They covered their heads too.

The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!

Elisha stared at him in horror until Hazael became ill at ease. Suddenly Elisha burst into tears.

Elisha became ill with the disease that caused his death. Jehoash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!

Jehovah, Please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and truth. And consider my whole heart devoted to you. I have done what is good in your eyes. Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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

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.

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

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

Jesus groaned in his spirit and was troubled when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping.

Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. She stooped and looked into the tomb.

So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and cried as we remembered Zion.

All the Israelite congregation raised their voices and cried out loud all that night.

The messengers arrived at Gibeah where Saul lived. When they told the news, the people started crying in despair. Just then Saul came from the field from behind some oxen. Why are these people crying? Saul asked. They told him the news about the men of Jabesh.

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

They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of Jehovah, because so many had been killed in battle.

Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul. He clothed you in scarlet with luxury.

Your hands were not bound. Your feet were not in fetters. You fell as one falls in front of wicked men. And all the people continued to cry for him.

They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

O Jehovah God, commander of armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off. They have dress themselves with sackcloth in their streets. On their housetops and in their squares everyone is wailing, taken down with tears.

Their brave men cry aloud in the streets; the messengers (ambassadors) of peace weep bitterly.

The house of the ruler of the synagogue was filled with commotion. Many were weeping and wailing.

Why do you weep and break my heart? Paul answered: For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Peter remembered what Jesus told him: Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times. He went out and wept bitterly.

Then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered what Jesus said: Before the rooster crows two times, you will deny me three times. He broke down and cried.

He left there and wept bitterly.

Yet I will keep one of your descendants alive. He will serve me as priest. But he will become blind and lose all hope. All your other descendants will die in the prime of life.

Standing by his feet weeping, she wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with the hair of her head. Then she kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

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.

Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha (Governor), and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people: This day is holy to Jehovah your God. Let there be no sorrow or weeping. For all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.

A voice is heard on the bare hills. It is the crying and the pleading of the people of Israel. They are perverted and have forgotten Jehovah their God.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

One of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman to his brothers. He did this right in front of Moses and the entire congregation of Israel while they were crying at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

You returned and cried to Jehovah. Jehovah, however, did not listen to you. He turned a deaf ear to you!

The people of Israel went up to Bethel and mourned. They sat there in Jehovah's presence and fasted until evening. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole in the presence of Jehovah.

The people of Israel went to Bethel and sat there in the presence of God until evening. They lifted their voices and wept bitterly.

Some of the priests, Levites, heads of families and old men who had seen the first house were present. When the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes they were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy: So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping. The cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth. Instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Mourn, you shepherds, and cry. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. The time has come for you to be slaughtered. The time has come for you to be scattered, and you will break like fine pottery.

With weeping they will come. By supplication I will lead them. I will make them walk by streams of waters on a straight path in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.

In those days and at that time, declares Jehovah, the sons of Israel will come. Both they and the sons of Judah will go along weeping as they go. They will seek Jehovah their God.

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her cheeks are wet from crying. Her lovers offer no comfort. Her friends have been false to her. They have become her enemies.

Let your cry go up to Jehovah: O wall of the daughter of Zion let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night. Give yourself no rest. Do not let your eyes hold back the drops of sorrow.

Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!

Listen to Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Almighty: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. They will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! They will call the farmer to mourning, and the professional mourner to lamentation and crying. All vineyards will lament. For I will pass through your midst, said Jehovah.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.

I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born. That day will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon (Megiddo).

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast forth into the outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

My eyes shed streams of water, because they do not keep your law.

If you will not listen, I will cry secretly over your arrogance. I will cry bitterly, and my eyes will flow with tears because Jehovah's flock will be taken captive.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears. Not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you.