Good News Translation
The people of Jerusalem fled in fear, and the city became a colony of foreigners. Jerusalem was foreign to its own people, who had been forced to abandon the city.

New Revised Standard Version
Because of them the residents of Jerusalem fled; she became a dwelling of strangers; she became strange to her offspring, and her children forsook her.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone ran from Jerusalem. Their own city became a foreign country to them, and strangers moved in.

New American Bible
The citadel became an ambush against the sanctuary, and a wicked adversary to Israel at all times.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil devil in Israel.

And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil devil in Israel.

1 Maccabees 1:36
And they placed there a sinful nation, wicked men, and they fortified themselves therein: and they stored up armour; and victuals, and gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem;

1 Maccabees 1:37
And laid them up there: and they became a great snare.

1 Maccabees 1:39
And they shed innocent blood round about the sanctuary, and defiled the holy place.

1 Maccabees 1:40
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away by reason of them and the city was made the habitation of strangers, and she became a stranger to her own seed, and her children forsook her.