10 亲属抬出尸体焚烧时,必问内屋的人:“你那里还有别人吗?”那人必回答:“没有。”问的人必说:“不要作声,我们不可提耶和华的名。”

11 看啊,耶和华一声令下,
大屋顿成瓦砾,小房化为碎片。
12 马能在悬崖上奔驰吗?
牛能在海中耕作吗?
你们却使公正沦为毒药,
使公义之果变成苦艾。

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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

10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.

11 For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

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