1317. The tumult of such murmurings or the sound of the confused murmurs was of a threefold kind. One was only a confusion of murmurs around my head in every direction and for some distance round about. I was told that this was only the variation of the thoughts and of the sounds or murmurs bursting forth therefrom; and such was the confusion that one did not know what another thought or what another knew, as is usual with a great multitude all speaking differently and at the same time, and thus sounding almost like water to which, I think, it is also likened in the Word.