“And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.”
When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father: bless me — me too, my father! The cry of Esau is one of the most poignant in the Bible — loud and bitter, the sound of a man who has lost what he cannot recover. Hebrews 12:17 notes that Esau sought the blessing with tears but found no change of mind. The application: the blessing that was despised at the moment of the stew cannot be recovered at the moment of the tears. The loss is real and permanent.
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