1 Maccabees 4:36-38

Good News Translation

³⁶ Judas and his brothers said,
    Now that our enemies have been defeated, let's go to Jerusalem to purify the Temple and rededicate it. ³⁷ So the whole army was assembled and went up to Mount Zion. ³⁸ 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.