When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
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.
My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget thy words.
But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,