Joy and weeping mingle at the foundation

12But many of the priests and the Levites and the heads of the fathers’ houses, the old men who had seen the first house, were weeping with a loud voice when this house was founded before their eyes, while many were raising their voice with a shout of joy.

13And the people could not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people were shouting with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.