therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

因此我厌恶自己，在尘土和炉灰中懊悔。”

因此我撤回，在尘土和炉灰中懊悔。”

因此我撤回，在尘土和炉灰中懊悔。”

因此我厌恶自己，在尘土和炉灰中忏悔。”

因此我厌恶自己，在尘土和灰烬中懊悔。”

因此我厭惡自己，在塵土和爐灰中懊悔。

因此我撤回，在塵土和爐灰中懊悔。」

因此我撤回，在塵土和爐灰中懊悔。」

因此我厭惡自己，在塵土和爐灰中懺悔。」

因此我厭惡自己，在塵土和灰燼中懊悔。”

因此我溶化為無有了；我在塵土和爐灰中懊悔着。』

故我自憾、在於灰塵、而自悔焉、○

故我自憾、坐於塗炭、旋有悔心。○

故我自厭、坐於塗炭塗炭原文作灰塵而自悔、○

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

So I hate myself. I’m really sorry for what I said about you. That’s why I’m sitting in dust and ashes.”

I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”

Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them; I am dust and ashes.

Therefore I retract, And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.”

Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”

Wherefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.

Therefore I take back my words and repent in dust and ashes.

Wherefore I abhor[ myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes!

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

saying:“ O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Then Job answered the Lord and said:“ Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.

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.

The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh,“ By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

“ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! 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.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.

Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

“ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! 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.

I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him,“ Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’

that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”

And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?

yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.