עָצַב

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.

And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.

And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”

(His father had never once reprimanded him by saying, “Why do you act this way?” Adonijah was also very handsome, born next after Absalom.)

And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.

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

And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.”

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.

For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”