39. Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproach, her honor into contempt.
40. According to her glory, so was her dishonor multiplied, and her high estate was turned into mourning.
41. And king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
42. and that each should forsake his own laws. And all the nations agreed according to the word of the king;
43. and many of Israel consented to his worship, and sacrificed to the idols, and profaned the Sabbath.
44. And the king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land,