Lexicon :: Strong's H1832 - dimʿâ

“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, ‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the LORD’s temple.

I am weary from my groaning;

with my tears I dampen my bed

and drench my couch every night.

“Hear my prayer, LORD,

and listen to my cry for help;

do not be silent at my tears.

For I am here with you as an alien,

a temporary resident like all my ancestors.

My tears have been my food day and night,

while all day long people say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

You yourself have recorded my wanderings.[fn]

Put my tears in your bottle.

Are they not in your book?

You fed them the bread of tears

and gave them a full measure[fn]

of tears to drink.

For you, LORD, rescued me from death,

my eyes from tears,

my feet from stumbling.

Those who sow in tears

will reap with shouts of joy.

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

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.

When he has swallowed up death once and for all,

the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears

from every face

and remove his people’s disgrace

from the whole earth,

for the LORD has spoken.

“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add fifteen years to your life.[fn]

If my head were a flowing spring,

my eyes a fountain of tears,

I would weep day and night

over the slain of my dear[fn] people.

Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us

so that our eyes may overflow with tears,

our eyelids be soaked with weeping.

But if you will not listen,

my innermost being will weep in secret

because of your pride.

My eyes will overflow with tears,

for the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

You are to speak this word to them:

Let my eyes overflow with tears;

day and night may they not stop,

for my dearest people[fn]

have been destroyed by a crushing blow,

an extremely severe wound.

This is what the LORD says:

Keep your voice from weeping

and your eyes from tears,

for the reward for your work will come —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

and your children will return from the enemy’s land.

She weeps bitterly during the night,

with tears on her cheeks.

There is no one to offer her comfort,

not one from all her lovers.[fn]

All her friends have betrayed her;

they have become her enemies.

My eyes are worn out from weeping;

I am churning within.

My heart is poured out in grief[fn]

because of the destruction of my dear people,

because infants and nursing babies faint

in the streets of the city.

The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.

Wall of Daughter Zion,

let your tears run down like a river

day and night.

Give yourself no relief

and your[fn] eyes no rest.

“Son of man, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a fatal blow. But you must not lament or weep or let your tears flow.

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.