Ezra 9:3
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
KJV
Cumque audissem sermonem istum, scidi pallium meum et tunicam, et evelli capillos capitis mei et barbæ, et sedi mœrens.
Vulgate
καὶ ὡς ἤκουσα τὸν λόγον τοῦτον, διέρρηξα τὰ ἱμάτιά μου καὶ ἐπαλλόμην, καὶ ἔτιλλον ἀπὸ τῶν τριχῶν τῆς κεφαλῆς μου καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πώγωνός μου, καὶ ἐκαθήμην ἠρεμάζων.
LXX
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
ASV
וּ/כְ/שָׁמְעִ/י֙ אֶת הַ/דָּבָ֣ר הַ/זֶּ֔ה קָרַ֥עְתִּי אֶת בִּגְדִ֖/י וּ/מְעִילִ֑/י וָ/אֶמְרְטָ֞/ה מִ/שְּׂעַ֤ר רֹאשִׁ/י֙ וּ/זְקָנִ֔/י וָ/אֵשְׁבָ֖/ה מְשׁוֹמֵֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Job 1:20 — Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
- Job 2:13 — So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Joel 2:1 — Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
- Josh 7:6 — And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
- Neh 1:4 — And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
- Neh 1:4 — And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
- Ps 119:53 — Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.