8 The Temple is like someone without honor.
9 Its splendid furnishingshave been carried away as loot.Our children have been killed in the streets,and our young men by the sword of the enemy.
10 Every nation in the world has occupied the cityand robbed her of her possessions.
11 All her ornaments have been stripped away;she is now a slave, no longer free.
12 Look at our Temple, profaned by the Gentiles,emptied of all its splendor.
13 Why should we go on living?”
14 In their grief, Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, put on sackcloth, and continued in deep mourning.