Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.

Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.

And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it.

Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping.

And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.

Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time.

Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.

‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

The People Rebel

That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.

You came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.

When the angel of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,

“You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.

The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and they inquired of the Lord. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The Lord answered, “Go up against them.”

May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud

At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.

When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud.

After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.

When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” And he wept aloud.

So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

They buried Abner in Hebron, and the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept also.

Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.” And all the people wept over him again.