Tears and weeping imagery uses tears, mourning, weeping, remembered tears, and wiped-away tears to express grief, repentance, oppression, compassion, sowing in sorrow, and final divine consolation.
Tears and weeping imagery uses tears, mourning, weeping, remembered tears, and wiped-away tears to express grief, repentance, oppression, compassion, sowing in sorrow, and final divine consolation.
A grief-and-consolation motif in which tears and weeping represent lament, repentance, compassion, suffering, covenant sorrow, hopeful endurance, or God's promised removal of grief.
These examples show how Tears and Weeping Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears
Tears give embodied expression to deep distress before God.
weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning
Weeping and joy contrast temporary sorrow with restored favour.
put thou my tears into thy bottle
Stored tears picture God's remembrance of the sufferer's grief.
they that sow in tears shall reap in joy
Tears become seed-like sorrow that God turns into joyful harvest.
a time to weep, and a time to laugh
Weeping marks one of the appointed seasons of life under God.
mine eyes a fountain of tears
The fountain of tears intensifies grief over covenant ruin.
began to wash his feet with tears
Tears express repentance, love, and humble devotion to Christ.
Jesus wept
Christ's tears reveal real compassion in the presence of death and grief.
with tears
Paul's tears show pastoral vigilance and costly care for the church.
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes
Wiped-away tears picture final consolation and the end of death and sorrow.
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