³ As soon as I heard this, I ^(A)tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and ^(B)sat appalled.

⁶ Then Ezra withdrew ^(A)from before the house of God and went to the ^(B)chamber of ^(C)Jehohanan the son of ^(D)Eliashib, where he spent the night,^[a] neither ^(E)eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.