10 Then one’s [a]uncle, or his [b](A)undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will [c]answer, “(B)Keep quiet. For [d]the name of the Lord is (C)not to be mentioned.” 11 For behold, the Lord is going to (D)command that the (E)great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.

12 Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow [e]them with oxen?
Yet you have turned (F)justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into [f]wormwood,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:10 Or beloved one
  2. Amos 6:10 Lit one who burns him
  3. Amos 6:10 Lit say
  4. Amos 6:10 Lit not to make mention of the name of
  5. Amos 6:12 Another reading is the sea with oxen
  6. Amos 6:12 I.e. bitterness