4
When I heard these words, aI sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before bthe God of heaven.
a
Ezra 9:3, Ezra 10:1
Ezra 9
3
When I heard about this matter, I atore my garment and my robe, and pulled some of the hair from my head and my beard, and bsat down appalled.
Ezra 10
1
Now awhile Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself bbefore the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly.