18. People rushed out of their houses and crowded together making common supplication, because the place was in danger of being profaned.
19. Women, girded with sackcloth below their breasts, filled the streets. Young women secluded indoors all ran, some to the gates, some to the walls, others peered through the windows—
20. all of them with hands raised toward heaven, making supplication.
21. It was pitiful to see the populace prostrate everywhere and the high priest full of dread and anguish.