34 Bible Verses about Tears

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Psalm 56:8

You number my wandering; O put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your Book?

1 Samuel 20:41

As soon as the lad had gone, David rose from the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. And they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David exceeded.

1 Samuel 30:4

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

Psalm 6:6

I am weary in my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I melt my couch with my tears.

Job 16:16

My face is reddened from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Psalm 31:9

Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a pilgrim, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 80:5

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Psalm 126:6

He who goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Jeremiah 9:1

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

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail with tears; my inward parts ferment; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people, in that the children and the babies faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 3:48

Streams of water run down my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Luke 23:27

And a great multitude of people were following Him, and of women who also were bewailing and lamenting Him.

Psalm 84:6

Passing through the valley of weeping, they will make it a fountain; the early rain also covers it with blessings.

Malachi 2:13

And this is a second thing you have done, covering the altar of Jehovah with tears, weeping, and groaning, yet not facing toward the food offering, and taking it with delight from your hand.

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces. And He shall take away from all the earth the rebuke of His people. For Jehovah has spoken.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I will make Jerusalem ruins, a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without a living soul.

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 from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

Hebrews 5:7

For Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,

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

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

Hebrews 12:16-17

(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he did not find any place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears).

Ezra 10:1

And when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there gathered to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children, for the people wept with a great weeping.

From Thematic Bible


Lachrymatory » Bottle » Tears

Psalm 56:8

You number my wandering; O put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your Book?

Tears » Of solicitude over sinners

Psalm 126:6

He who goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me because of the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain 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 feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary in my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I melt my couch with my tears.

Job 30:31

And my lyre has turned to mourning, and my flute to the sound of weeping.

Psalm 102:9

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

Tears » Observed by God

Psalm 56:8

You number my wandering; O put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your Book?

Isaiah 38:3-5

and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done the good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping. Then came the Word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying, Go and say to Hezekiah: So says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.

Tears » Wiped away

Tears » None in heaven

Tears » Figurative

Psalm 80:5

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

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