Tears

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Psalm 6:6 I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
• Psalm 39:12 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.
• Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Observed by God

• Psalm 56:8 You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle — are they not in Your book?
• Isaiah 38:3–5 saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father Da…

Wiped away

• Revelation 7:17 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.’”

None in heaven

• Revelation 21:4 ‘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.”

Figurative

• Psalm 80:5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.