1 Maccabees 1:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Every bridegroom took up lamentation, she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness.

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Every bridegroom was saddened, and intended brides sat mourning in their chambers.

And the leaders and elders mourned, and the virgins and young men became weak, and the splendor of the women was changed.

And the princes, and the ancients mourned, and the virgins and the young men were made feeble, and the beauty of the women was changed.

Every bridegroom sang a funeral song, and every bride sat mourning in her room.

Every bridegroom took up lamentation. She who sat in the marriage chamber was mourning.

Newlyweds sang about death and mourned on their wedding day.