³⁸ And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.

⁸ Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

⁵ Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

⁶ Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

⁶ The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

⁷ My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

⁸ Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

¹ Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

¹⁸ I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

¹⁷ The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

³ Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

⁹ And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

⁹ They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

⁴ Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

⁵ And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.

⁴ Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:

¹² But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

¹⁰ And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

⁴ Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.

²¹ Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.

⁴⁴ And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.

⁴⁵ You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet.

⁴⁶ You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet.

⁶² And he went out, weeping bitterly.

⁴ Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.

⁵ Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.

¹⁰ For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

¹¹ For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.

⁹ Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

¹⁸ Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

¹⁹ Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.