Good News Translation
When Mattathias and his friends heard the news about this, they were greatly saddened

New Revised Standard Version
When Mattathias and his friends learned of it, they mourned for them deeply.

Contemporary English Version
When Mattathias and his followers heard what had happened, they mourned a long time.

New American Bible
When Mattathias and his friends heard of it, they mourned deeply for them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.

And Mathathias and his friends heard of it, and they mourned for them exceedingly.

1 Maccabees 2:37
Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.

1 Maccabees 2:38
So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.

1 Maccabees 2:40
And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.

1 Maccabees 2:41
And they determined in that day, saying: Whosoever shall come up against us to fight on the sabbath day, we will fight against him: and we will not all die, as our brethren that were slain in the secret places.