Ezra 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.

Job 8:7; Ps 126:6; Isa 41:14; Isa 60:22; Jer 31:8,9; Da 2:34,35; Hag 2:3; Zec 4:10; Mt 13:31,32

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.”