Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Grieved

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

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?