Ezra 3:12

3:12 Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders ¹  – older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established ²  – were weeping loudly, ³  and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.

Ezra 9:7

9:7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and ⁴  priests, have been delivered over by the local kings ⁵  to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment – right up to the present time.

[3:12]  ¹ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”

[3:12]  ² sn The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

[3:12]  ³ tn Heb “with a great voice.”

[9:7]  ⁴ tc The MT lacks “and” here, but see the LXX and Vulgate.

[9:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “the kings of the lands.”