9 Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in the streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.
10 What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils?
11 All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she is become a bondslave.
12 And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it.
13 To what end therefore shall we live any longer?
14 Then Mattathi´as and his sons rent their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned very sore.
15 In the meanwhile the king's officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modin, to make them sacrifice.