1 Maccabees 1:37-39

Good News Translation

³⁷ Innocent people were murdered around the altar;
the Holy Place was defiled by murderers.
³⁸ The people of Jerusalem fled in fear,
and the city became a colony of foreigners.
Jerusalem was foreign to its own people,
who had been forced to abandon the city.
³⁹ Her Temple was as empty as a wilderness;
her festivals were turned into days of mourning,
her Sabbath joy into shame.
Her honor became an object of ridicule.