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Want to know what the Bible says about Tears? Here are 175 Bible verses about Tears from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 56:8 NIV
Record my misery;
    list my tears on your scroll
    are they not in your record?
1078
Revelation 21:4 NIV
‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
987
Psalm 126:5 NIV
Those who sow with tears
    will reap with songs of joy.
592
Revelation 7:17 NIV
For the Lamb at 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.’
530
Psalm 42:3 NIV
My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”
496
Isaiah 25:8 NIV
    he will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.
420
Psalm 80:5 NIV
You have fed them with the bread of tears;
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
397
Psalm 39:12 NIV
“Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;
    do not be deaf to my weeping.
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
    a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
389
Job 16:20 NIV
My intercessor is my friend
    as my eyes pour out tears to God;
360
Isaiah 38:5 NIV
“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
344
Psalm 6:6 NIV
I am worn out from my groaning.
All night long I flood my bed with weeping
    and drench my couch with tears.
336
2 Kings 20:5 NIV
“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.
314
Psalm 30:5 NIV
For his anger lasts only a moment,
    but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
    but rejoicing comes in the morning.
286
Isaiah 41:10 NIV
So do not fear, for I am with you;
    do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
    I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
270
Acts 20:19 NIV
I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents.
232
Lamentations 2:11 NIV
My eyes fail from weeping,
    I am in torment within ;
my heart is poured out on the ground
    because my people are destroyed,
because children and infants faint
    in the streets of the city.
227
Psalm 34:15 NIV
The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
    and his ears are attentive to their cry;
226
Malachi 2:13 NIV
Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.
224
Mark 9:24 NIV
Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
221

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