1 Maccabees 4:37-39

Good News Translation

     ³⁷ So the whole army was assembled and went up to Mount Zion. ³⁸ There they found the Temple abandoned, the altar profaned, the gates burned down, the courtyards grown up in a forest of weeds, and the priests' rooms torn down. ³⁹ In their sorrow, they tore their clothes, cried loudly, threw ashes on their heads,