I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.