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24 Bible Verses About Crying

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  • God tells the dying Hezekiah, “I have heard your prayer and seen your tears,” and adds fifteen years to his life (2 Kings 20:5-6).
  • John 11:35 uses dakruo, to shed tears, for Jesus on the way to Lazarus’s tomb; Luke 19:41 records him weeping over Jerusalem, and Hebrews 5:7 describes his prayers “with fervent cries and tears.”
  • Romans 12:15 uses klaio, to weep, which the English Standard Version translates “weep with those who weep.”
  • Psalm 30:5 and Psalm 126:5-6 set weeping before joy, and Luke 6:21 blesses those who “weep now, for you will laugh.”
  • Isaiah 25:8 and Revelation 21:4 both promise that God will wipe away tears, in the same sentence as the end of death.

The Bible treats crying as something God sees and answers. God tells Hezekiah, “I have seen your tears” (2 Kings 20:5), Jesus weeps for Lazarus (John 11:35) and over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41), and Revelation 21:4 promises that God “will wipe every tear from their eyes.” People in the Bible weep over illness (2 Kings 20), childlessness (1 Samuel 1), enemies (Psalm 6 and Psalm 56), oppression (Ecclesiastes 4), the ruin of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 9, Lamentations 2, Nehemiah 1), a friend’s…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 1145, δακρύω (dakruo): to weep, to shed tears; cited for John 11:35. biblehub.com/greek/1145

Strong’s Greek 2799, κλαίω (klaio): to weep, to cry, to mourn; cited for John 11:33, Luke 6:21, Luke 19:41 and Romans 12:15. biblehub.com/greek/2799

English Standard Version, compared for Psalm 56:8, Job 16:20 and Romans 12:15. biblegateway.com

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