Ezra 9:5

having rent. having already rent.

I feel upon my knees. Compare Ezra 10:1; 2 Chronicles 6:13.Daniel 6:10; Luke 22:41.Acts 7:60; Acts 9:40; Acts 20:36. Act :21:5.

the LORD. Hebrew Jehovah. App-4.

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⁵ And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness;a and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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Ezra 9:5