³⁴ Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

⁶ Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell before the ark of the Lord with his face to the ground until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

National Confession of Sin

9 On the twenty-fourth day of this month^(A) the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.^(B)

¹² When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud,^(A) and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.^{(B) 13} Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights,^(C) but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering^(D) was very intense.