TSK · 2 Samuel 12:16

He replied,“While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,‘Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.

“If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

O LORD, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.

An Appeal for Repentance“Yet even now,” the LORD says,“return to me with all your heart– with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.