1 Maccabees 4:38
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
There they saw the sanctuary desolate, the altar profaned, and the gates burned. In the courts they saw bushes sprung up as in a thicket, or as on one of the mountains. They saw also the chambers of the priests in ruins.

Contemporary English Version
They saw the deserted temple and the unclean altar, where the Gentiles had sacrificed unfit animals. The temple's doors had been burned, and the priests' rooms were damaged. Tall bushes and weeds were growing in the temple courtyard, making it look like a forest or a mountain.

New American Bible
They found the sanctuary desolate, the altar desecrated, the gates burnt, weeds growing in the courts as in a thicket or on some mountain, and the priests’ chambers demolished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

1 Maccabees 4:36
Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places, and to repair them.

1 Maccabees 4:37
And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount Sion.

1 Maccabees 4:39
And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:

1 Maccabees 4:40
And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.

Context
1 Maccabees 4
37And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount Sion. 38And 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. 39And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 4:36
Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places, and to repair them.

1 Maccabees 4:37
And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount Sion.

1 Maccabees 4:39
And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:

1 Maccabees 4:40
And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.



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