1 Esdras 5:58-60

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⁵⁸ they sang hymns, giving thanks to the Lord, “For his goodness and his glory are forever upon all Israel.” ⁵⁹ And all the people sounded trumpets and shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord for the erection of the house of the Lord. ⁶⁰ Some of the Levitical priests and heads of ancestral houses, old men who had seen the former house, came to the building of this one with outcries and loud weeping,^(A)