Ezra 3:12-13
3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders 1 – older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established 2 – were weeping loudly, 3 and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.
3:13 People were unable to tell the difference between the sound of joyous shouting and the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people were shouting so loudly 4 that the sound was heard a long way off.
1 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
2 sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.
3 tn Heb “with a great voice.”
4 tn Heb “a great shout.”