TEARS

Small urns or Lachrymatorises, of thin glass or simple pottery, and containing the tears of mourners at funerals, used to be placed in the sepulchres of the dead at Rome and in Palestine, where they are found in great numbers on opening ancient tombs. This custom is illustrative of Ps 56:8, which shows that God is ever mindful of the sorrows of his people. In Re 7:17 he is represented as tenderly wiping all tears from their eyes, or removing for ever all their grief.

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TEARS. → General scriptures concerning Ps 6:6; 39:12; 42:3 → Observed by God Ps 56:8; Isa 38:3-5 → Wiped away Re 7:17 → None in heaven Re 21:4 → FIGURATIVE Ps 80:5

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(1) Of Solicitude over Sinners Ps 126:6; Isa 22:4; Jer 9:1,18; 13:17; 14:17 Lu 19:41; Ac 20:19,31 --SEE Solicitude, EARNESTNESS (2) Of Disappointment and Grief Job 16:16; 30:31; Ps 6:6; 39:12; 42:3; 80:5; 102:9; Mr 9:24 --SEE Weeping (1), WEEPING Grief, SORROW