Hard times
Tears
Tears are allowed in God's presence. He keeps them, and he promises a day when he will wipe them away.
1. Psalms 39:12
““Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.”
2. Jeremiah 9:1
“Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!”
3. Mark 2:21
“No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.”
4. Jeremiah 9:18
“Let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.”
5. Acts 20:31
“Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.”
6. Deuteronomy 33:20
“About Gad he said, “He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.”
7. Ezekiel 24:16
““Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.”
8. Lamentations 2:18
“Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let the your eyes rest.”
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Say it
Practice Psalms 39:12
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
“Hearmyprayer,Yahweh,andeartomycry.Don’tbesilentatmyForIamastrangerwithyou,aforeigner,asallmywere.