1 Maccabees 4:54 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 At what time and on what day the Gentiles had profaned it, even on that day was it dedicated afresh, with songs and harps and lutes, and with cymbals. Flere versionerCommon English Bible In the very season, on the exact day that the Gentiles had polluted it, it was dedicated with songs, harps, lutes, and cymbals. Catholic Public Domain Version According to the time and according to the day, on which the Gentiles had contaminated it, on the same day, it was renewed with canticles, and lutes, and lyres, and cymbals. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers At the time and day the Gentiles had profaned it, even then it was dedicated with songs, harps, lutes, and with cymbals. Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition 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. |