Esdra 3:13

La Nuova Diodati

cosicch la gente non poteva distinguere il rumore delle grida di allegrezza da quello del pianto del popolo, perch il popolo lanciava alte grida, e il rumore si udiva da lontano.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
in guisa che non si potea discernere il rumore delle grida d’allegrezza da quello del pianto del popolo; perché il popolo mandava di gran gridi, e il rumore se n’udiva di lontano.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E il popolo non poteva discernere la voce delle grida di allegrezza dalla voce del pianto nel popolo; perciocchè il popolo gittava gran grida, e la voce ne fu udita fin da lungi.

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.