2 Samuel 12:21-22

21Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? 1While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”

22He said, “While the child was still alive, 2I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘3Who knows, the Lord may be gracious to me, that the child may live.’