Ezr 9:3-4, 10:1, Psa 69:9 | ESV | STEP | As soon as I heard this , I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled .

Ezra 9:3-4

3 As soon as I heard this, I ^atore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and ^bsat appalled. 4 Then all who ^ctrembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat ^dappalled until the evening sacrifice.

Ezra 10:1

The People Confess Their Sin

1 ^eWhile Ezra prayed and ^fmade confession, weeping and ^gcasting himself down ^hbefore the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

Psalms 69:9

9 For ⁱzeal for your house has consumed me,
and ^jthe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.