And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down appalled.
All Commentaries on Ezra 9:3 Go To Ezra 9
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Coat, (tunicam) or inner garment. (Haydock)
Mourning. Hebrew, "astonished. "(Syriac) (Montanus) (Calmet) (Protestants)
Septuagint, "alone. "3 Esdras, "pensive and in grief. "(Haydock)
Arabic, "not uttering a word. "See Job i. 20., and ii. 8. This was the ordinary posture of people in sorrow, Isaias iii. 26. (Calmet)
