⁸ Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg [anything] of him.

⁵ Is such the fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul, -- that he should bow down his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? Wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to Jehovah?