'Crying' in the Bible
When she opened it, she saw the child—a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”
Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings.
But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers—that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
The Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to break camp.
Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry; Moses was also provoked.
Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me: ‘Give us meat to eat!’
Sisera’s mother looked through the window;she peered through the lattice, crying out:“Why is his chariot so long in coming?Why don’t I hear the hoofbeats of his horses?”
“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than 10 sons?”
The Israelites said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying out to the Lord our God for us, so that He will save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
As Elisha watched, he kept crying out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” Then he never saw Elijah again. He took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.
So Haman took the garment and the horse. He clothed Mordecai and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man the king wants to honor.”
I am weary from my crying;my throat is parched.My eyes fail, looking for my God.
My eyes are worn out from crying.Lord, I cry out to You all day long;I spread out my hands to You.
For the Lord God of Hostshad a day of tumult, trampling, and confusionin the Valley of Vision—people shouting and crying to the mountains;
I will oppress Ariel,and there will be mourning and crying,and she will be to Me like an Ariel.
A voice of one crying out:Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
I will rejoice in Jerusalemand be glad in My people.The sound of weeping and cryingwill no longer be heard in her.