Lexicon :: Strong's H1832 - dimʿâ

I am weary with my groaning;

Every night I soak my bed with tears,

I drench my couch with my weeping.

“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and listen to my cry;

Do not be silent at my tears;

For I am Your temporary guest,

A sojourner like all my fathers.

My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

You have taken account of my wanderings;

Put my tears in Your bottle.

Are they not recorded in Your book?

You have fed them the bread of tears,

And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.

For You have rescued my life from death,

My eyes from tears,

And my feet from stumbling and falling.

They who sow in tears shall reap with joyful singing.

Then I looked again and considered all the acts of oppression that were being practiced under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

Therefore I (Isaiah) will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vines of Sibmah.

I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;

For the war-cry [of the enemy] has fallen on your summer fruits and your harvest.

He will swallow up death [and abolish it] for all time.

And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces,

And He will take away the disgrace of His people from all the earth;

For the LORD has spoken.

Oh that my head were waters

And my eyes a fountain of tears,

That I might weep day and night

For the slain of the daughter of my people!

“Let them hurry and take up a wailing for us,

That our eyes may shed tears

And our eyelids flow with water.

But if you will not listen and obey,

My soul will weep in secret for your pride;

My eyes will weep bitterly

And flow with tears,

Because the LORD’S flock has been taken captive.

“Therefore [Jeremiah] you will say this word to them,

‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,

And let them never cease;

For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a great blow,

With a very serious and severely infected wound.

Thus says the LORD,

“Restrain your voice from weeping

And your eyes from tears,

For your work will be rewarded,” says the LORD;

“And your children will return from the enemy’s land.

She weeps bitterly in the night

And her tears are [constantly] on her cheeks;

Among all her lovers (political allies)

She has no one to comfort her.

All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;

They have become her enemies.

My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],

My spirit is deeply disturbed;

My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],

When little ones and infants faint

In the streets of the city.

Their hearts cried out to the Lord.

“O wall of the Daughter of Zion,

Let your tears run down like a river day and night;

Give yourself no relief,

Let your eyes have no rest.

This is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with [your own] weeping and sighing, because the LORD no longer regards your offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.