New Revised Standard Version
At the very season and on the very day that the Gentiles had profaned it, it was dedicated with songs and harps and lutes and cymbals.

Contemporary English Version
Exactly three years earlier, the Gentiles had offered sacrifices to their idols on the altar and had made it unfit for worship. But now the priests were worshiping God at the altar again, while the rest of the people sang and played harps, cymbals, and small stringed instruments.

New American Bible
On the anniversary of the day on which the Gentiles had desecrated it, on that very day it was rededicated with songs, harps, lyres, and cymbals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
According to the time, and according to the day wherein the heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.

According to the time, and according to the day wherein the heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.

1 Maccabees 4:52
And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and forty-eighth year.

1 Maccabees 4:53
And they offered sacrifice, according to the law, upon the new altar of holocausts which they had made.

1 Maccabees 4:55
And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed up to heaven, him that had prospered them.

1 Maccabees 4:56
And they kept the dedication of the altar eight days, and they offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of praise.