Ezra 3:12

But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers.

Long and loud were these Jewish Te Deums re-echoed by the shouts of the multitude. It was not, however,. day of unmingled joy, for among the crowd stood some aged men who had lived through the catastrophe of the Captivity; who, in their youth, had seen the magnificent structure of Solomon standing in its unbroken stateliness; and when they compared that vanished splendor with these scanty beginnings, they could not refrain from bursting into. loud wail at the sad contrast. The two strains from the older and the younger generation mingled in. rivalry of emotion.-- Stanley.