When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders and when they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

His Cultural Revolution alone killed as many as two million people, shattered traditions, uprooted spiritual and ethical values, and tore apart family ties and communal loyalties.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me I also have heard you, says Yahweh.

Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, for its part, is emerging from a long armed conflict considered to be the first African world war a war that has deeply divided the country, shattered its economy and destroyed its basic infrastructure, its schools, its hospitals and its administration.