¹³ So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

¹⁰ They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.

⁴ It happened, 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 Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

¹ Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

²⁶ Her gates shall lament and mourn; And she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

⁴ You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

² "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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

⁸ God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

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