¹³ So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

¹⁰ And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

⁴ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

¹⁵ Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river Chebar, and to where they dwelt; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

¹ 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 thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

⁴ Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

² If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

³ And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.