Esdras 3:13

Louis Segond

en sorte qu'on ne pouvait distinguer le bruit des cris de joie d'avec le bruit des pleurs parmi le peuple, car le peuple poussait de grands cris dont le son s'entendait au loin.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et l'on ne pouvait discerner la voix des cris de joie d'avec la voix des pleurs du peuple; car le peuple jetait de grands cris, de sorte que leur voix fut entendue bien loin.

Darby's French Translation
et le peuple ne pouvait distinguer entre le bruit des cris de joie et la voix du peuple qui pleurait; car le peuple poussait de grands cris, et le bruit s'entendait au loin.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et le peuple ne pouvait discerner la voix des cris de joie, et d'allégresse, d'avec la voix des pleurs du peuple; cependant le peuple jetait de grands cris de joie, en sorte que la voix fut entendue bien loin.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

So that: This sight must have been very affecting; a whole people, one part weeping aloud with sorrow, the other shouting aloud for joy; and on the same occasion too, in which both sides felt an equal interest. The prophet Haggai - Haggai 2:1-9 comforted them on this occasion, by assuring them that the glory of this latter house should exceed that of the former, because the Lord would come to this temple, and fill it with His glory.

the noise: Judges 2:5

shouted: Nehemiah 12:43, Psalms 5:11, Jeremiah 33:11, Zechariah 4:7, Luke 19:37-40

and the noise: Exodus 32:17, Exodus 32:18, 1 Samuel 4:5, 1 Kings 1:40, 1 Kings 1:45, Psalms 100:1, Psalms 100:2

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 20:19 - a loud Jeremiah 50:4 - going Zechariah 4:10 - despised Matthew 28:8 - with Acts 16:25 - and the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people,.... That is, not clearly and distinctly, they were so mixed and confounded together, and made such a jarring and discord:

for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off; the shouting being of young people, whose voice was strongest, and they the most numerous, the noise of shouting prevailed over the noise of weeping; and it was heard further, and at a distance appeared more distinctly to be the noise of shouting, that of weeping not reaching so far; though Jarchi is of opinion that the noise of weeping was heard further than the noise of shouting, which is not likely.