1 Maccabees 3:46-48

Good News Translation

⁴⁶ Then Judas and his men assembled and marched to Mizpah, opposite Jerusalem, because the people of Israel had previously had a place of worship there. ⁴⁷ In deep mourning, they fasted all that day, put on sackcloth, threw ashes on their heads, and tore their clothes. ⁴⁸ The Gentiles would have consulted their idols in such a situation, but the Israelites unrolled