2Sa 12:21-22, Ezr 10:1, Neh 1:4, Psa 6:8, 102:9, Hos 12:4, Heb 5:7 | ESV | STEP | Then his servants said to him, What is this thing that you have done ? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive ; but when the child died , you arose and ate food .

2 Samuel 12:21-22

21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.” 22 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ^a‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

Ezra 10:1

The People Confess Their Sin

1 ^bWhile Ezra prayed and ^cmade confession, weeping and ^dcasting himself down ^ebefore the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

Nehemiah 1:4

Nehemiah’s Prayer

4 As soon as I heard these words I ^fsat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the ^gGod of heaven.

Psalms 6:8

8 ^hDepart from me, all you ⁱworkers of evil,
for the Lord ^jhas heard the sound of my weeping.

Psalms 102:9

9 For I eat ashes like bread
and ^kmingle tears with my drink,

Hosea 12:4

4 He strove with the angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought his favor.
^lHe met God ^{▼▼Hebrew him} at Bethel,
and there God spoke with us—

Hebrews 5:7

7 In the days of his flesh, ⁿJesus ^{▼▼Greek he} offered up prayers and supplications, ^pwith loud cries and tears, to him ^qwho was able to save him from death, and ^rhe was heard because of his reverence.