¹³ No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy^(A) from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.

The People’s Confession of Sin

10 While Ezra was praying and confessing,^(A) weeping^(B) and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.