“¶ And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the Priest the Scribe, and the Leuites that taught the people, said vnto all the people, This day is holy vnto the Lord your God, mourne not, nor weepe: for all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
8:9 Wept - Out of a sense of their guilt and danger by reason of it.