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 threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very 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 fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

¹⁵ Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

¹ Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no 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 being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

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

² If we 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 mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.