But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' 'houses', the old men that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
Also ful manye of þe preestis, and of þe dekenes, and þe princes of fadris, and þe eldre men, þat hadden seyn þe formere temple, whanne it was foundid, and this temple bifor her iyen, wepten with greet vois, and many men criynge in gladnesse reisiden þe vois;