National Confession of Sin

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)

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The Israelites Confess Their Sins

On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.(A)

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י Yod

10 The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads(A)
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.(B)

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10 The elders of Daughter Zion
    sit on the ground in silence;(A)
they have sprinkled dust(B) on their heads(C)
    and put on sackcloth.(D)
The young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their heads to the ground.(E)

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30 Because of you, they raise their voices
and cry out bitterly.
They throw dust on their heads;(A)
they roll in ashes.

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30 They will raise their voice
    and cry bitterly over you;
they will sprinkle dust(A) on their heads
    and roll(B) in ashes.(C)

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19 They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning,(A)

Woe, woe, the great city,(B)
where all those who have ships on the sea
became rich from her wealth;
for in a single hour she was destroyed.

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19 They will throw dust on their heads,(A) and with weeping and mourning(B) cry out:

“‘Woe! Woe to you, great city,(C)
    where all who had ships on the sea
    became rich through her wealth!
In one hour she has been brought to ruin!’(D)

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