Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
Job 42:6 - Revised Standard Version therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent In dust and ashes. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore I loathe [my words] and abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes. Common English Bible Therefore, I relent and find comfort on dust and ashes. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes. |
Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
And when Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.
saying: “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.
God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;
After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?
For after I had turned away I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God.”
And there you shall remember your ways and all the doings with which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.
then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, when I have broken their wanton heart which has departed from me, and blinded their eyes which turn wantonly after their idols; and they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.
Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
And if the leprosy breaks out in the skin, so that the leprosy covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,
“Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.