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1 Maccabees 2:4-8 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

4. and Judas, who was called Maccabeus,

5. and Eleazar, who was surnamed Avaran, and Jonathan, who was surnamed Apphus.

6. These saw the evils that were done among the people of Judah and in Jerusalem.

7. And Mattathias said: "Woe to me, for why was I born to see the grief of my people and the grief of the holy city, and to sit there, while it is given into the hands of the enemies?

8. The holy places have fallen into the hands of outsiders. Her temple is like a man without honor.