⁷ It happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.

^17 (A)The elders of his household stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.

⁶ Then Ezra ^(A)rose from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. Although he went there, ^(B)he did not eat bread nor drink water, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.