1 Maccabees 3:47

47 They fasted that day, put on sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on their heads, and tore their clothes.

1 Maccabees 3:47 In-Context

45 Jerusalem was uninhabited like a wilderness; not one of her children went in or out. The sanctuary was trampled down, and aliens held the citadel; it was a lodging place for the Gentiles. Joy was taken from Jacob; the flute and the harp ceased to play.

46 Then they gathered together and went to Mizpah, opposite Jerusalem, because Israel formerly had a place of prayer in Mizpah.

47 They fasted that day, put on sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on their heads, and tore their clothes.

48 And they opened the book of the law to inquire into those matters about which the Gentiles consulted the likenesses of their gods.

49 They also brought the vestments of the priesthood and the first fruits and the tithes, and they stirred up the nazirites who had completed their days;