2 Samuel 12:21-23

Revised Geneva Translation

²¹ Then his servants said to him, “What thing is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while it was alive. But when the child was dead, you rose up and ate food.”

²² And he said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. For I said, ‘Who can tell whether God will have mercy on me, so that the child may live?’

²³ “But now, being dead, why should I now fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”