"As the deer 2pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the bliving God.
When shall I come and 3appear before God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
“Where is your God?”
Ps 42:1-3
"For You have delivered my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from falling.
I will walk before the Lord
In the land of the living.
Ps 116:8-9
You number my wanderings;
Put my tears into Your bottle;
eAre they not in Your book?
9 When I cry out to You,
Then my enemies will turn back;
This I know, because fGod is for me.
10 In God (I will praise His word),
In the Lord (I will praise His word),
11 In God I have put my trust;
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
Ps 56:8-11
dThose who sow in tears
Shall reap in joy.
6 He who continually goes 3forth weeping,
Bearing 4seed for sowing,
Shall doubtless come again 5with erejoicing,
Bringing his sheaves with him.
Ps 126:5-6
He will kswallow up death forever,
And the Lord God will lwipe away tears from all faces;
The rebuke of His people
He will take away from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
9 And it will be said in that day:
“Behold, this is our God;
mWe have waited for Him, and He will save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for Him;
We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”
Is 25:8-9
Hear and give ear:
Do not be proud,
For the Lord has spoken.
16 kGive glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes ldarkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are mlooking for light,
He turns it into nthe shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.
17 But if you will not hear it,
My soul will oweep in secret for your pride;
My eyes will weep bitterly
And run down with tears,
Because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
Je 13:15-17
My eyes fail with tears,
My 8heart is troubled;
bMy 9bile is poured on the ground
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because cthe children and the infants
Faint in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they swoon like the wounded
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
In their mothers’ bosom.
La 2:11-12
mAll our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.
47 nFear and a snare have come upon us,
oDesolation and destruction.
48 pMy eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 qMy eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
50 Till the Lord from heaven
rLooks down and sees.
51 My eyes bring suffering to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
La 3:46-51
in the days of His flesh, when He had hoffered up prayers
and supplications, iwith vehement cries and tears to Him
jwho was able to save Him from death, and was heard
kbecause of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet
He learned lobedience by the things which He suffered. 9
And mhaving been perfected, He became the author of
eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as
High Priest n“according to the order of Melchizedek,” 11
of whom owe have much to say, and hard to explain, since
you have become pdull of hearing. " Heb 5:7-11
See also
Citizens of Heaven