1 Maccabees 1:26-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁶ And there was great mourning in Israel, and in every place where they were.

²⁷ And the princes, and the ancients mourned, and the virgins and the young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed.

²⁸ Every bridegroom took up lamentation: and the bride that sat in the marriage bed, mourned: