1 Maccabees 1:39
King James VersionSource notes
“Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.”
Context
36For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel.
37Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:
38Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.
39Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.
40As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased, and her excellency was turned into mourning.
41Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
42And every one should leave his laws: so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king.