54 verses contain “Tears” (in the KJV: 40, in the BSB: 43) — showing 1–54
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And Joseph made
haste; for his
bowels did
yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to
weep; and he entered into his chamber, and
wept there.
Joseph
hurried out because he was moved to
tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to
weep.
And of
Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth
Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
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.
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and
wept sore.
In her bitter distress,
Hannah prayed to the LORD and
wept with many
tears.
Turn again, and tell
Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will
heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
“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.
And
Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and
besought him with
tears to put away the mischief of
Haman the Agagite, and his
device that he had devised against the Jews.
And once again,
Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet
weeping and
begged him to
revoke the evil scheme of
Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
My friends
scorn me: but mine eye poureth out
tears unto God.
My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my
tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a
sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be
deaf to my
weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my
tears into thy
bottle: are they not in thy book?
You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my
tears in Your
bottle— are they not in Your book?
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
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 mingled my drink with
weeping,
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from
tears, my feet from
stumbling.
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
They that
sow in
tears shall
reap in joy.
Those who
sow in
tears will
reap with shouts of joy.
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the
foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Every wise woman builds her house, but a
foolish one
tears it down with her own hands.
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the
tears of such as were
oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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.
Therefore I will
bewail with the
weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my
tears, O
Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the
shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
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 in victory; and the Lord GOD will
wipe away
tears from off all faces; and the
rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
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 say to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
“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 waters, and mine eyes a fountain of
tears, that I might
weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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.
And let them make
haste, and take up a
wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with
tears, and our eyelids
gush out with waters.
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 ye will not hear it, my soul shall
weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall
weep sore, and run down with
tears, because the LORD’S flock is carried away
captive.
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.
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with
tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very
grievous blow.
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.
Thus saith the LORD;
Refrain thy voice from
weeping, and thine eyes from
tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
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 weepeth
sore in the night, and her
tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt
treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
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; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should
relieve my soul is far from me: my children are
desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
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.
Mine eyes do fail with
tears, my
bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings
swoon in the streets of the city.
My eyes fail from
weeping; I am
churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants
faint in the streets of the city.
Their heart
cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of
Zion, let
tears run down like a river day and night: give
thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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.
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou
mourn nor
weep, neither shall thy
tears run down.
“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.
And the
remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
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 have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with
tears, with
weeping, and with crying out,
insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
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.
And
straightway the father of the child
cried out, and said with
tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Immediately the boy’s father
cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
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.
And stood at his feet behind him
weeping, and began to wash his feet with
tears, and did
wipe them with the hairs of her head, and
kissed his feet, and
anointed them with the
ointment.
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 he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with
tears, and
wiped them with the hairs of her head.
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.
Serving the Lord with all
humility of mind, and with many
tears, and temptations, which
befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
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 watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to
warn every one night and day with
tears.
Therefore be
alert and remember that for three years I never stopped
warning each of you night and day with
tears.
For out of much
affliction and
anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many
tears; not that ye should be
grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
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 many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even
weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
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 ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of
repentance, though he sought it carefully with
tears.
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.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall
wipe away all
tears from their eyes.
For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their
shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will
wipe away every
tear from their eyes.’”
And God shall
wipe away all
tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
‘He will
wipe away every
tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or
mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Which when she had done as he had
bidden her, she brought her thither: and she
wept, and she received the
tears of her daughter, and said unto her,
He that pricketh the eye will make
tears to fall: and he that pricketh the heart maketh it to
shew her knowledge.
Do not the tears run down the widow’s cheeks? and is not her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
My son, let
tears fall down over the dead, and begin to
lament, as if thou hadst suffered great
harm thyself; and then cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial.
Now when they that were with Maccabeus heard that he besieged the holds, they and all the people with
lamentation and
tears besought the Lord that he would send a good angel to deliver Israel.