³ When I heard this, I tore^(A) my tunic and cloak, pulled hair from my head and beard and sat down appalled.^(B)

The People’s Confession of Sin

10 While Ezra was praying and confessing,^(A) weeping^(B) and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.

³ So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting,^(A) and in sackcloth and ashes.^(B)

³⁷ and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.^[a](A) She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.^(B)

³ So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them^(A) and sent them off.^(B)