1 Maccabees 3:43-45

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴³ And they said every man to his neighbour: Let us raise up the low condition of our people, and let us fight for our people, and our sanctuary.

⁴⁴ And the assembly was gathered that they might be ready for battle: and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.

⁴⁵ Now Jerusalem was not inhabited, but was like a desert: there was none of her children that went in or out: and the sanctuary was trodden down: and the children of strangers were in the castle, there was the habitation of the Gentiles: and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and harp ceased there.