and the salvation on that day becometh mourning to all the people, for the people hath heard on that day, saying, ‘The king hath been grieved for his son.’
And Joab son of Zeruial knoweth that the heart of the king [is] on Absalom,
And it is declared to Joab, ‘Lo, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom;’
And the people stealeth away, on that day, to go in to the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;
In the light of a king's face [is] life, And his good-will [is] as a cloud of the latter rain.
The wrath of a king [is] a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.