Turn back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of My people, Thus says the
Lord, the God of David your [forefather]: 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.
- Esther 8:3
And Esther spoke yet again to the king and fell down at his feet and besought him with tears to avert the evil plot of Haman the Agagite and his scheme that he had devised against the Jews.
- Job 16:20
My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.
- Job 31:38
For if my land has cried out against me and its furrows have complained together with tears [that I have no right to them],
- Psalm 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all night I soak my pillow with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping.
- Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not Your peace at my tears! For I am Your passing guest, a temporary resident, as all my fathers were.
- Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God?
- Psalm 56:8
You number and record my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle—are they not in Your book?
- Psalm 80:5
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and You have given them tears to drink in large measure.
- Psalm 116:8
For You have delivered my life from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling and falling.
- Psalm 126:5
They who sow in tears shall reap in joy and singing.
- Isaiah 16:9
Therefore I [Isaiah] will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vines of Sibmah. I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for upon your summer fruits and your harvest the shout [of alarm and the cry of the enemy] has fallen.
- Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death [in victory; He will abolish death forever]. And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; and the reproach of His people He will take away from off all the earth; for the Lord has spoken it.
- Isaiah 38:5
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 to your life fifteen years.
- Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were waters and my eyes a reservoir of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Jeremiah 9:18
Let them make haste and raise a wailing over us and for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush with water.
- Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear and obey, I 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.
- Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore [Jeremiah] you shall say to them, Let my eyes run down with tears
night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my
people has been smitten with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.
- Jeremiah 31:16
Thus says the Lord: Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord; and [your children] shall return from the enemy’s land.
- Lamentations 1:2
She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are [constantly]
on her cheeks. Among all her lovers (allies) she has no one to comfort
her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become
her enemies.
- Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; my eyes overflow with tears, because a comforter, one who could refresh and restore my soul, is far from me. My children are desolate and perishing, for the enemy has prevailed.
- Lamentations 2:18
The hearts [of the inhabitants of Jerusalem] cried to the Lord. [Then to
the congregation, I, Jeremiah, cried, addressing the wall as its
symbol] O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes stop [shedding tears].
- Lamentations 3:48
My eyes overflow with streams of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Ezekiel 24:16
Son of man [Ezekiel], behold, I take away from you the desire of your
eyes [your wife] at a single stroke. Yet you shall neither mourn nor
weep, neither shall your tears flow.
- Malachi 2:13
And this you do with double guilt; you cover the altar of the Lord with tears
[shed by your unoffending wives, divorced by you that you might take
heathen wives], and with [your own] weeping and crying out because the
Lord does not regard your offering any more or accept it with favor at
your hand.
- Mark 9:24
At once the father of the boy gave [an eager, piercing, inarticulate] cry with tears, and he said, Lord, I believe! [Constantly] help my weakness of faith!
- Luke 7:38
And standing behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with [her] tears;
and she wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed His feet
[affectionately] and anointed them with the ointment (perfume).
- Luke 7:44
Then turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, Do you see this woman?
When I came into your house, you gave Me no water for My feet, but she
has wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
- Acts 20:19
Serving the Lord with all humility in tears and in the midst of adversity (affliction and trials) which befell me, due to the plots of the Jews [against me];
