1 Maccabees 1:37-39

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁷ On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood;
    they even defiled the sanctuary.
³⁸ Because of them the residents of Jerusalem fled;
    she became a dwelling of strangers;
she became strange to her offspring,
    and her children forsook her.
³⁹ Her sanctuary became desolate like a desert;
    her feasts were turned into mourning,
her sabbaths into a reproach,
    her honor into contempt.