Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad. 

‘Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop: but a good word makes it glad.’ Anxiety, sorrow, and rebuke prostrate a man, but one statement of good news makes the heart light.

‘Stoop’ – Four examples of when sorrow prostrated men: Ezra (Ezra 9:3-10:3); Nehemiah (Neh. 1:4); David (Ps. 40:12; 2Sam. 18:33) and Jeremiah (Jer. 8:18; 9:1).

Psalms 69:19-21 predicts the sufferings of the Messiah on the cross and we see that He was heartbroken: Reproach had broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 

‘A good word makes it glad.’ Three examples of good news making glad: are Jacob (Gen. 45:27); Darius (Dan. 6:18-23) and the disciples (Matt. 28:5-8; Luke 24:32).