1 Maccabees 1:39
“Her Sanctuary was laid waste like a wildernesse, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproch, her honour into contempt.”
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1 Maccabees 1:39 Context
37Thus they shed innocent blood on euery side of the Sanctuary, and defiled it. 38In so much that the inhabitants of Ierusalem fledde because of them, whereupon [the citie] was made an habitation of strangers, & became strange to those that were borne in her, and her owne children left her: 39Her Sanctuary was laid waste like a wildernesse, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproch, her honour into contempt. 40As had bene her glory, so was her dishonour encreased, and her excellencie was turned into mourning. 41Moreouer king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdome, that all should be one people,
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Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.
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