And Dawiḏ
And Nathan went to his house, and יהוה smote the child that Uriyah’s wife had born to Dawiḏ
And he said, “While the child was alive I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether יהוה shows favour unto me, and the child shall live?’
And the sovereign rose up and tore his garments and lay on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their garments torn.
And it came to be, when Aḥ
And it came to be, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days. And I was fasting and praying before the Elohim of the heavens,
“Go, gather all the Yehuḏ
“And call upon Me in the day of distress – Let Me rescue you, and you esteem Me.”
And I wept in my being with fasting, And it became my reproach.
And in that day the Master יהוה of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
O יהוה, in distress they shall visit You, they shall pour out a prayer when Your disciplining is upon them.
And the sovereign went to his palace and spent the night fasting. And no entertainment was brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.
So I set my face toward יהוה the Elohim to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
“Who knows whether Elohim does turn and relent, and shall turn away from the heat of His displeasure, so that we do not perish?”
And he was three days without sight, and did not eat nor drink.
And Yehoshua tore his garments, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of יהוה until evening, both he and the elders of Yisra’ĕ
