Tears

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

Concerning Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges the domain of Gad! He lies down like a lion and tears off an arm or a head.

In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

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

For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.

Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.

And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.

And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.

Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.

For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.

For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.

During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.