Good News Translation
Antiochus now issued a decree that all nations in his empire should abandon their own customs and become one people. All the Gentiles and even many of the Israelites submitted to this decree. They adopted the official pagan religion, offered sacrifices to idols, and no longer observed the Sabbath.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people,

Contemporary English Version
Antiochus wanted everyone in his kingdom to follow the same customs. So he made a law that said, "You must give up the traditions of your ancestors."

New American Bible
Her sanctuary became desolate as a wilderness; her feasts were turned into mourning, Her sabbaths to shame, her honor to contempt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were brought to nothing.

Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were brought to nothing.

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.

1 Maccabees 1:42
Her dishonour was increased according to her glory, and her excellency was turned into mourning.

1 Maccabees 1:43
And king Antiochus wrote to all his kingdom, that all the people should be one: and every one should leave his own law.