Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
- Date
- 1611
- English wording
- King James Version translation committees · from Biblical Hebrew / Aramaic / Koine Greek
Meaning of “And God shall wipe away all tears from…”
The image gives grief an imagined endpoint, focusing consolation on a future in which tears and the conditions producing them are no longer permanent.
Where does it come from?
Revelation 21:4, King James Version; the verse continues with the end of death, sorrow, crying, and pain in the new creation.
