1 Maccabees 1:28-30

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁸ Every bridegroom took up lamentation: and the bride that sat in the marriage bed, mourned:

²⁹ And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.

³⁰ And after two full years the king sent the chief collector of his tributes to the cities of Juda, and he came to Jerusalem with a great multitude.