“And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.”
Esau said to his father: do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father! Then Esau wept aloud. The weeping is real. The request is genuine. The grief is the grief of a man who has finally understood what the birthright was worth and what the blessing meant — too late, when both are gone. Proverbs 5:11-12 captures this: at the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent, and you will say, how I hated discipline! The application: the tears that come after the birthright is sold and the blessing is taken are the tears of belated understanding. The sorrow is real; the recovery is not available.
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