Thus the wedding was turned into mourning and the voice of their musicians into a funeral dirge: Compare Amos 8.10. Contemporary English Version provides a helpful model for this verse, saying:

• A wedding was turned
into a funeral,
and wedding music
into funeral songs.

Another possible model is:

• And so the wedding became a time of mourning, and the music turned to sounds of grieving.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Maccabees. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2011. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.