Ezra 3:12

3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders34—older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established35—were weeping loudly,36 and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.

34	tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
35	sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.
36	tn Heb “with a great voice.”