the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was deeply grieved.

Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

And now don’t be grieved or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.

Israel Routed

When Moses reported these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome with grief.

Any man from your family I do not cut off from my altar will bring grief and sadness to you. All your descendants will die violently.

But David said, “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor with you. He has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or else he will be grieved.’” David also swore, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

He got up from the table fiercely angry and did not eat any food that second day of the New Moon, for he was grieved because of his father’s shameful behavior toward David.

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wondrous than the love of women.

King David longed to go to Absalom, for David had finished grieving over Amnon’s death.

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for settlement, Absalom called out to him and asked, “What city are you from?” If he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”

He added, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land. Then anyone who had a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would make sure he received justice.”

That day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the troops because on that day the troops heard, “The king is grieving over his son.”

Then he said to them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, because the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

And the Levites quieted all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Don’t grieve.”

Why is light given to one burdened with grief, and life to those whose existence is bitter,

If only my grief could be weighed and my devastation placed with it on the scales.

My eyes have grown dim from grief, and my whole body has become but a shadow.

Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

My eyes are swollen from grief; they grow old because of all my enemies.

But you yourself have seen trouble and grief, observing it in order to take the matter into your hands. The helpless one entrusts himself to you; you are a helper of the fatherless.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my strength has failed because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

I went about mourning as if for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for a mother.

So I say, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert.