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Vain is the builder’s toil, if the house is not of the Lord’s building; vainly the guard keeps watch, if the city has not the Lord for its guardian. (Psalms 126, 1)
While these lips tell of the Lord’s praise, let all that lives bless his holy name, for ever, and for evermore. (Psalms 144, 21)
ay, and go uncircumcised; forgotten, their loyalty to the holy covenant, they must throw in their lot with the heathen, and become the slaves of impiety. (1 Maccabees 1, 16)
plundering the city and setting fire to it. Houses and encircling walls of it were thrown down in ruins, (1 Maccabees 1, 33)
what an ambush laid about the holy place, what devil’s work against Israel! (1 Maccabees 1, 38)
Little wonder if the inhabitants of Jerusalem took to flight, leaving their city to strangers; mother so unnatural her own children must forsake. (1 Maccabees 1, 40)
And, for the more profanation of the sanctuary, and of Israel’s holy people, (1 Maccabees 1, 49)
no city of Juda but was ordered to do sacrifice. (1 Maccabees 1, 54)
and die they must, because they would not break God’s holy law. (1 Maccabees 1, 66)
and these saw well what foul things were a-doing in Juda’s country and the city of Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 2, 6)
Alas, what needed it, cried Mattathias, I should have been born into such an age as this? To see my people and the holy city alike brought to ruin, to sit by while the enemy overcame her, (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
And now Mattathias raised a cry in the city, Who loves the law? Who keeps the covenant unbroken? Out with you, and follow me! (1 Maccabees 2, 27)
