God's tears?

The anthem that the choir will sing this Sunday has the following phrase:

아버지 당신의 마음이 있는 곳에 나의 마음이 있기를 원해요
아버지 당신의 눈물이 고인 곳에 나의 눈물이 고이길 원해요

Roughly translated, the phrase goes like this:

Father, where your heart is, I want my heart to be as well.
Father, where your tears are welling up, I want my tears to well up as well.

My initial reaction as I was singing this song in practice was one of being taken back. Does our Father God shed tears? Even figuratively, I could not recall any recording of that. I was not sure if there is any Bible reference on God the Father either shedding tears or weeping.

The closest reference to God the Father weeping that I could find was in Micah 1. In speaking of the sin and judgement of Samaria and Jerusalem, the Lord says "I will wail and weep" because "her wound is incurable; it has come to Judah." (verses 8 & 9) Because of their sin, God must pour out His wrath and judgment on Samaria and Judgment, but at the same time He is weeping about it. Even though the Lord is merciful and "patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance" (II Peter 3:9), He is also just and has a predetermined day of judgment for those unrelenting, unrepenting souls. He will judge the quick and the dead, as we affirm in the Apostle's creed.

In the same vein, Jesus also wept in Luke 19, verses 41-44. As Jesus was entering Jerusalem, He looked ahead to the days when not one stone will be left on another and the city will be utterly destroyed. As He spoke of the destruction of the city, Jesus wept visibly. He lamented that the city would be destroyed "because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you."

If I am singing a prayer that where Father's tears are welling up, I want my tears to well up as well, I am singing of my heartache and my lamentation that many of my fellow human beings are going down the path of destruction. I am singing of my prayer that I will look toward them with compassion, that I will take my footsteps to deliver a message of repentance and redemption to them, and that I lay myself down to be used as a tool of God the Father to fulfill His will in any way He sees fit.

Father, my heart goes out to my brethren in North Korea. Father, as newborns are suffocated and buried alive when born to mothers of concentration camps, as children and elderly die of starvation, as the misguided soldiers worship a man as their god -- as the whole nation is going down a path of destruction, I think you are wailing and weeping. Extend your mercy to that desolate land. Let redemption and freedom come to that patch of a peninsula. Bless the NK Reconstruction initiave of WCNF. Let me keep my vow for NKRF. In Jesus' name. Amen.