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10 死者的亲属和殓葬的人把尸体从房子抬走,并问那躲在屋内深处的人:“还有人吗?”那人回答:“没有,不要再说话,不可再提耶和华的名。”

11 看哪!耶和华下令,大楼就粉碎,

小屋也要破裂。

颠倒是非

12 马会在悬崖奔驰吗?

人会用牛耙海吗?(译文是根据对原文字母不同的划分;《马索拉文本》直译作“人会用牛耙地吗?”)

但你使公正变为毒草,

使公义的果子转为苦堇。

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10 And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them[a](A) asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush!(B) We must not mention the name of the Lord.”

11 For the Lord has given the command,
    and he will smash(C) the great house(D) into pieces
    and the small house into bits.(E)

12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea[b] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(F)
    and the fruit of righteousness(G) into bitterness(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:10 Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead
  2. Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there