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Bible Verses About Tears
Find Bible verses about tears — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about tears?
The Bible addresses tears with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Psalms 80:5
“You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.”
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2 Corinthians 2:4
“For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.”
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Psalms 42:3
“My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"”
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Malachi 2:13
“This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.”
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Psalms 39:12
“"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.”
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Psalms 126:5
“Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.”
Isaiah 25:8
“He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.”
Psalms 119:136
“Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI”
Jeremiah 9:1
“Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!”
Psalms 56:8
“You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?”
Psalms 116:8
“For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.”
Luke 7:38
“Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.”
2 Kings 20:5
“"Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh, 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, yo...”
Proverbs 14:1
“Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.”
Hebrews 5:7
“He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,”
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Isaiah 38:5 — “"Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. ...”
Lamentations 2:11 — “My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the de...”
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