When Elijah finished speaking, Ahab tore his clothes, took them off, and put on sackcloth. He refused food, slept in the sackcloth, and went about gloomy and depressed.

The Sovereign LORD Almighty was calling you then to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.

He throws me down in the mud; I am no better than dirt.

The LORD's enemies will be destroyed; he will thunder against them from heaven. The LORD will judge the whole world; he will give power to his king, he will make his chosen king victorious."

then let my enemies pursue me and catch me, let them cut me down and kill me and leave me lifeless on the ground!

I tell them to stop their boasting."

He will break the power of the wicked, but the power of the righteous will be increased.