1 Maccabees 4:37-39

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁷ And all the army assembled together, and they went up into mount Sion.

³⁸ And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.

³⁹ And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads: