Heaviness — From that mournful posture, and put myself into the posture of a petitioner. He did this at the time of the evening sacrifice, because then devout people used to come into the courts of the temple, that hearing his confession, they likewise might be made sensible of the sins of the people. And he had an eye to that great propitiation, of which that sacrifice was a peculiar type.
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Ezra 9:5
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,