They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.”
All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the LORD’s house had been laid.
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice.
Many also shouted aloud for joy,