1 Maccabees 4:40
Good News Translation
and fell face down on the ground. When the signal was given on the trumpets, everyone cried out to the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
and fell face down on the ground. And when the signal was given with the trumpets, they cried out to Heaven.

Contemporary English Version
and lay face down on the ground. A trumpet was blown, and they began praying out loud to their God.

New American Bible
and prostrated themselves. And when the signal was given with trumpets, they cried out to Heaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.

1 Maccabees 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.

1 Maccabees 4:39
And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:

1 Maccabees 4:41
Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,

1 Maccabees 4:42
And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the law of God.

Context
1 Maccabees 4
39And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads: 40And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven. 41Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 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.

1 Maccabees 4:39
And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:

1 Maccabees 4:41
Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,

1 Maccabees 4:42
And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the law of God.



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1 Maccabees 4:39
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