Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, etc.—the outer and inner garment, which was a token not only of great grief, but of dread at the same time of the divine wrath;
plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard—which was a still more significant sign of overpowering grief.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezra 9:3:
Ezra 9:1-2
Lamentations 1:1
Ezekiel 3:12
Micah 1:16
Malachi 2:10-16
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