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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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Isaiah 22:4 NIV
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”
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Psalm 139:16 NIV
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
113
Ezra 10:1 NIV
While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.
111
Psalm 102:9 NIV
For I eat ashes as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears
111
Ecclesiastes 4:1 NIV
Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:
I saw the tears of the oppressed—
    and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
    and they have no comforter.
108
Hosea 13:14 NIV
“I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;
    I will redeem them from death.
Where, O death, are your plagues?
    Where, O grave, is your destruction?
“I will have no compassion,
108
Luke 15:10 NIV
In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
108
Hebrews 12:17 NIV
Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. Even though he sought the blessing with tears, he could not change what he had done.
107
Luke 15:7 NIV
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
107

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