And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.
You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.
And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
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