1 Samuel 30:4

4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

1 Samuel 30:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 30:4

Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted up their
voice
In doleful shrieks, and loud lamentations:

and wept, until they had no more power to weep;
till nature was quite exhausted, and no moisture left; so the Vulgate Latin version, "till tears failed in them"; they could shed no more.

1 Samuel 30:4 In-Context

2 and had taken the women captive, who were therein. They slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away and went on their way.

3 So David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captive.

4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

5 And David's two wives were taken captive: Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

6 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.