Quotes about Weeping
In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
- Esther 4:3
And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
- Esther 8:3
My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
- Job 16:16
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
- Job 30:25
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
- Job 30:31
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalm 6:6
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
- Psalm 6:8
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Psalm 30:5
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.
- Psalm 39:12
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
- Psalm 69:10
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
- Psalm 137:1
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- Isaiah 15:2