And David said, While the child yet lived, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who knows if the Lord will pity me, and the child should live?

And call upon Me in the day of affliction; and I shall deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. Pause.

Lord, in affliction I remembered You; Your chastening was to us with small affliction.

Now therefore, says the Lord your God, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:

Who knows if He will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind Him, even a grain offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God?

Who knows if God will relent, and turn from His fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?

Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and fast for me, and eat not and drink not for three days, night and day. And I also and my maidens will fast, and then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.

And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach.

And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;

And he was three days not seeing, and neither ate nor drank.

Then the king arose, and tore his clothes, and lay upon the ground. And all his servants that were standing round him tore their clothes.

Though evil be sweet in his mouth, though he will hide it under his tongue;

yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; the gall of an asp is in his belly.