Quotes About Weeping

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.

For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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.

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.

A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORDís flock has been taken captive.

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israelís Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”

“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.

Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the king told the servants, ëTie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.í

Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.