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100 Bible Verses about Tears

Psalm 56:8 ESV / 1,403 helpful votes

You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 1,311 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Psalm 126:5 ESV / 820 helpful votes

Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!

Revelation 7:17 ESV / 793 helpful votes

For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Psalm 42:3 ESV / 727 helpful votes

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”

John 11:35 ESV / 689 helpful votes

Jesus wept.

Psalm 80:5 ESV / 620 helpful votes

You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Isaiah 38:5 ESV / 580 helpful votes

“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Job 16:20 ESV / 562 helpful votes

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Isaiah 25:8 ESV / 498 helpful votes

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.

Psalm 39:12 ESV / 461 helpful votes

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

Psalm 6:6 ESV / 407 helpful votes

I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

2 Kings 20:5 ESV / 386 helpful votes

“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord,

James 1:12 ESV / 372 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 372 helpful votes

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 342 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 336 helpful votes

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 290 helpful votes

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

John 11:33 ESV / 278 helpful votes

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.

Acts 20:19 ESV / 260 helpful votes

Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

Ecclesiastes 3:4 ESV / 256 helpful votes

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Malachi 2:13 ESV / 236 helpful votes

And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.

Lamentations 2:11 ESV / 233 helpful votes

My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.

Luke 13:28 ESV / 229 helpful votes

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.

Mark 9:24 ESV / 226 helpful votes

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

Jeremiah 13:17 ESV / 217 helpful votes

But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.

Psalm 116:8 ESV / 217 helpful votes

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;

Jeremiah 9:1 ESV / 215 helpful votes

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!

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 215 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Acts 20:31 ESV / 213 helpful votes

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.

Jeremiah 9:18 ESV / 202 helpful votes

Let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 200 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Jeremiah 14:17 ESV / 200 helpful votes

“You shall say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 197 helpful votes

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Hebrews 5:7 ESV / 183 helpful votes

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

John 11:1-57 ESV / 176 helpful votes

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ...

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 175 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Psalm 34:17 ESV / 162 helpful votes

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.

John 14:27 ESV / 161 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 157 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 16:9 ESV / 156 helpful votes

Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for over your summer fruit and your harvest the shout has ceased.

John 3:16 ESV / 153 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 38:3-5 ESV / 147 helpful votes

And said, “Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 146 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Luke 7:38 ESV / 146 helpful votes

And standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Lamentations 1:2 ESV / 144 helpful votes

She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 2:18 ESV / 143 helpful votes

Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!

Malachi 3:16 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.

Luke 6:21 ESV / 134 helpful votes

“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Jeremiah 31:16 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 131 helpful votes

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Genesis 21:17 ESV / 129 helpful votes

And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

John 14:6 ESV / 127 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 127 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 125 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Matthew 26:75 ESV / 125 helpful votes

And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.

Job 16:16 ESV / 123 helpful votes

My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

Luke 19:41 ESV / 121 helpful votes

And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,

1 Samuel 30:4 ESV / 120 helpful votes

Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep.

1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 119 helpful votes

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Luke 23:27 ESV / 117 helpful votes

And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.

Luke 15:7 ESV / 117 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 117 helpful votes

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Philippians 3:18 ESV / 116 helpful votes

For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.

1 Samuel 20:41 ESV / 115 helpful votes

And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.

Isaiah 22:4 ESV / 114 helpful votes

Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Hebrews 12:17 ESV / 110 helpful votes

For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

Luke 15:10 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Ecclesiastes 4:1 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

Psalm 102:9 ESV / 110 helpful votes

For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

Ezra 10:1 ESV / 110 helpful votes

While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

Esther 8:3 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.

Hosea 13:14 ESV / 107 helpful votes

I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

Ezekiel 24:16 ESV / 107 helpful votes

“Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.

Psalm 126:6 ESV / 107 helpful votes

He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

Acts 9:39 ESV / 104 helpful votes

So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

2 Corinthians 2:4 ESV / 103 helpful votes

For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

John 3:3 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Luke 23:28 ESV / 99 helpful votes

But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Psalm 116:7-9 ESV / 99 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 1:3-4 ESV / 98 helpful votes

I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.

James 4:9 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Jeremiah 9:11 ESV / 96 helpful votes

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 95 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Lamentations 3:48 ESV / 94 helpful votes

My eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Hebrews 12:16-17 ESV / 93 helpful votes

That no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

Psalm 84:6 ESV / 93 helpful votes

As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.

Psalm 31:9 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.

Job 30:31 ESV / 90 helpful votes

My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

Psalm 9:9 ESV / 89 helpful votes

The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

Luke 8:52 ESV / 82 helpful votes

And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.”

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Mark 16:10 ESV / 79 helpful votes

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 75 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 74 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...

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