And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.