Ezra 9:3-5

Modern English Version

³ When I heard this, I tore my clothes and my robe, plucked out the hair of my head and from my beard, and sat down astonished. ⁴ Because of the vile behavior of those who had been in exile, every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered to me, but I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.

⁵ At the evening sacrifice I rose up from my heaviness and, despite having my clothes and my robe torn, I knelt on my knees and stretched out my hands in prayer to the Lord my God