And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my heaviness,.... The signs and tokens of it, particularly sitting on the ground; or "from my fasting" , having eaten nothing that day, it being early in the morning when he was told the above case:and having rent my garment and my mantle; which he had done before, and still kept them on him in the same case:fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God; in the posture and with the gesture of an humble supplicant.
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Ezra 9:5
Ezra 9:5
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