1 Esdras 5:61

61 they sang hymns, giving thanks to the Lord, "For his goodness and his glory are forever upon all Israel."

1 Esdras 5:61 In-Context

59 And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments, with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals,

60 praising the Lord and blessing him, according to the directions of King David of Israel;

61 they sang hymns, giving thanks to the Lord, "For his goodness and his glory are forever upon all Israel."

62 And all the people sounded trumpets and shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord for the erection of the house of the Lord.

63 Some of the levitical priests and heads of ancestral houses, old men who had seen the former house, came to the building of this one with outcries and loud weeping,