³ When I heard this, I tore my garment and my mantle and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.^(A)

The People’s Response

10 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him out of Israel; the people also wept bitterly.^(A)

⁴ Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.^(A)