Lexicon :: Strong's H1065 - bᵊḵî

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and also Pharaoh’s household heard it.

The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They wept loudly and bitterly,

Just as he finished speaking, the king’s sons entered and wept loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.

The people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shouting from that of the[fn] weeping, because the people were shouting so loudly. And the sound was heard far away.

There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict reached. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

My face has grown red with weeping,

and darkness covers my eyes,

He dams up the streams from flowing[fn]

so that he may bring to light what is hidden.

Depart from me, all evildoers,

for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.

For his anger lasts only a moment,

but his favor, a lifetime.

Weeping may stay overnight,

but there is joy in the morning.

I eat ashes like bread

and mingle my drinks with tears

Dibon went up to its temple

to weep at its high places.

Moab wails on Nebo and at[fn] Medeba.

Every head is shaved;

every beard is chopped short.

My heart cries out over Moab,

whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

to Eglath-shelishiyah;

they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;

they raise a cry of destruction

on the road to Horonaim.

So I join with Jazer

to weep for the vines of Sibmah;

I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears.

Triumphant shouts have fallen silent[fn]

over your summer fruit and your harvest.

Therefore I said,

“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!

Do not try to comfort me

about the destruction of my dear[fn] people.”

On that day the Lord GOD of Armies

called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads,

and for the wearing of sackcloth.

“I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and be glad in my people.

The sound of weeping and crying

will no longer be heard in her.

A sound is heard on the barren heights:

the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,

for they have perverted their way;

they have forgotten the LORD their God.

I will raise weeping and a lament

over the mountains,

a dirge over the wilderness grazing land,

for they have been so scorched

that no one passes through.

The sound of cattle is no longer heard.

From the birds of the sky to the animals,

everything has fled ​— ​they have gone away.

They will come weeping,

but I will bring them back with consolation.[fn]

I will lead them to wadis filled with water,

by a smooth way where they will not stumble,

for I am Israel’s Father,

and Ephraim is my firstborn.

This is what the LORD says:

A voice was heard in Ramah,

a lament with bitter weeping —

Rachel weeping for her children,

refusing to be comforted for her children

because they are no more.

For on the Ascent to Luhith

they will be weeping continually,[fn]

and on the descent to Horonaim

will be heard cries of distress over the destruction:

I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah,

with more than the weeping for Jazer.

Your tendrils have extended to the sea;

they have reached to the sea and to Jazer.[fn]

The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

Even now —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

turn to me with all your heart,

with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

This is another thing you do. You are covering the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning, because he no longer respects your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.