Good News Translation
So they determined to rebuild their ruined nation and fight for their country and the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
But they said to one another, “Let us restore the ruins of our people, and fight for our people and the sanctuary.”

Contemporary English Version
But Judas and his brothers were determined to make their nation strong again and to defend their people and temple.

New American Bible
So they said to one another, “Let us raise our people from their ruin and fight for them and for our sanctuary!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they said, every man to his neighbour: Let us raise up the low condition of our people, and let us fight for our people, and our sanctuary.

And they said, every man to his neighbour: Let us raise up the low condition of our people, and let us fight for our people, and our sanctuary.

1 Maccabees 3:41
And the merchants of the countries heard the fame of them: and they took silver and gold in abundance, and servants: and they came into the camp, to buy the children of Israel for slaves: and there were joined to them the forces of Syria, and of the land of the strangers.

1 Maccabees 3:42
And Judas, and his brethren, saw that evils were multiplied, and that the armies approached to their borders: and they knew the orders the king had given to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them.

1 Maccabees 3:44
And the assembly was gathered, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.

1 Maccabees 3:45
Now Jerusalem was not inhabited, but was like a desert: there was none of her children that went in or out: and the sanctuary was trodden down: and the children of strangers were in the castle, there was the habitation of the Gentiles: and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and harp ceased there.