When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.
When I wept and humbled myself with fasting, I was jeered at and humiliated;
I wept while I fasted— even for that I was insulted.
When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.