“While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let him live.’ But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
David and Bathsheba Mourning over Their Dead Son (c. 1640-45)
Salomon Koninck (Dutch, 1609-1656)