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“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.
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What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.
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God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
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My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
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He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
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“if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,
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I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
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My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
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Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll— are they not in your record?
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You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
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For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
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For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,
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Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed.
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Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.
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The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
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The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.
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Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness
Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.
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So I weep, as Jazer weeps, for the vines of Sibmah. Heshbon and Elealeh, I drench you with tears! The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit and over your harvests have been stilled.
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he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.
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“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
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Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.
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Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.
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If you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because the Lord’s flock will be taken captive.
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“Speak this word to them: “‘Let my eyes overflow with tears night and day without ceasing; for the Virgin Daughter, my people, has suffered a grievous wound, a crushing blow.
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This is what the Lord says: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord. “They will return from the land of the enemy.
