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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Ezra 3:13

So that the people could not discern, &c. The mixture of sorrow and joy here is a representation of this world. In heaven all are singing and none sighing; in hell all are wailing and none rejoicing: but here on earth we can scarce discern the shouts of joy from the noise of the weeping; let us learn to rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Meantime, let us ourselves rejoice as though we rejoiced not, and weep as though we wept not.

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  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֵ֣ין הָ עָ֗ם מַכִּירִים֙ קֹ֚ול תְּרוּעַ֣ת

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    No text from Poole on this verse....

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