Bible Verses About The Second Temple: Grief of those who had seen the first temple

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,

‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?