Ezra 9:5

And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my heaviness ,.... The signs and tokens of it, particularly sitting on the ground; or "from my fasting" F14 מתעניתי "jejunio meo", Michaelis; so Jarchi. , having eaten nothing that day, it being early in the morning when he was told the above case:

and having rent my garment and my mantle ; which he had done before, and still kept them on him in the same case:

fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God ; in the posture and with the gesture of an humble supplicant.