'Wept' in the Bible
Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” So as she sat nearby, she wept loudly.
Esau said to his father, “Do you only have one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” And Esau wept loudly.
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.
But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.
He turned away from them and wept. Then he turned back and spoke to them. He took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.
But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and also Pharaoh’s household heard it.
Then Joseph threw his arms around Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.
Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept, and afterward his brothers talked with him.
Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.
Then Joseph, leaning over his father’s face, wept and kissed him.
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.
‘Say this to Joseph: Please forgive your brothers’ transgression and their sin—the suffering they caused you.’ Therefore, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when their message came to him.
Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.
When you returned, you wept before the Lord, but He didn’t listen to your requests or pay attention to you.
The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
When the Angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and at last, on the seventh day, he explained it to her, because she had nagged him so much. Then she explained it to her people.
They went up, wept before the Lord until evening, and inquired of Him: “Should we again fight against our brothers the Benjaminites?”And the Lord answered: “Fight against them.”
The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.
So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They wept loudly and bitterly,
May the Lord enable each of you to find security in the house of your new husband.” She kissed them, and they wept loudly.
Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
Whenever she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat.
Deeply hurt, Hannah prayed to the Lord and wept with many tears.
God struck down the men of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the Lord. He struck down 70 men out of 50,000 men. The people mourned because the Lord struck them with a great slaughter.
When the messengers came to Gibeah, Saul’s hometown, and told the terms to the people, all wept aloud.
When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone Ezel, fell with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept with each other, though David wept more.
When David finished saying these things to him, Saul replied, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud
David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep.
They mourned, wept, and fasted until the evening for those who died by the sword—for Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord’s people, and the house of Israel.
When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept,
Your hands were not bound,your feet not placed in bronze shackles.You fell like one who falls victim to criminals.And all the people wept over him even more.
His servants asked him, “What did you just do? While the baby was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate food.”
He answered, “While the baby was alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let him live.’
Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons entered and wept loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept bitterly.
The king was deeply moved and went up to the gate chamber and wept. As he walked, he cried, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
Then Elisha stared steadily at him until Hazael was ashamed.The man of God wept,
When Elisha became sick with the illness that he died from, Jehoash king of Israel went down and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
“Please Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases You.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard you—this is the Lord’s declaration—
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard’—this is the Lord’s declaration.
But many of the older priests, Levites, and family leaders, who had seen the first temple, wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this house, but many others shouted joyfully.
While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict came. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.
Then Esther addressed the king again. She fell at his feet, wept, and begged him to revoke the evil of Haman the Agagite, and his plot he had devised against the Jews.
When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.
Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
By the rivers of Babylon—there we sat down and weptwhen we remembered Zion.
He said, “Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly, and have done what pleases You.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Jacob struggled with the Angel and prevailed;he wept and sought His favor.He found him at Bethel,and there He spoke with him.
and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,
And he went outside and wept bitterly.