⁷ This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.^(A)

¹⁷ The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused,^(A) and he would not eat any food with them.^(B)

⁶ Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food and drank no water,^(A) because he continued to mourn over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.