1 Maccabees 4:39
Good News Translation
In their sorrow, they tore their clothes, cried loudly, threw ashes on their heads,

New Revised Standard Version
Then they tore their clothes and mourned with great lamentation; they sprinkled themselves with ashes

Contemporary English Version
Judas and his soldiers grieved terribly. They tore their clothes, then threw ashes on their heads

New American Bible
Then they tore their garments and made great lamentation; they sprinkled their heads with ashes

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

1 Maccabees 4:38
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.

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.

1 Maccabees 4:41
Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,

Context
1 Maccabees 4
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: 40And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 4:37
And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount Sion.

1 Maccabees 4:38
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.

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.

1 Maccabees 4:41
Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,



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1 Maccabees 4:38
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