¹³ So they sat down with him on the ground ^(A)seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

¹⁰ Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they ^(A)mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. ^(B)He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

⁴ So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

¹⁵ Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and ^(A)I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

The Humiliation of Babylon

³ So when I heard this thing, ^(A)I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down ^(B)astonished.

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