4:36. Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places, and to repair them.
4:37. And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount Sion.
4:38. And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.
4:39. And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:
4:40. And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.
4:41. Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,
4:42. And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the law of God.
4:43. And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that had been defiled into an unclean place.
4:44. And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been profaned, what he should do with it.
4:45. And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so they threw it down.