⁶ “Both high and low will die in this land.^(A) They will not be buried or mourned,^(B) and no one will cut^(C) themselves or shave^(D) their head for the dead.

⁷ No one will offer food^(A) to comfort those who mourn^(B) for the dead—not even for a father or a mother—nor will anyone give them a drink to console^(C) them.

⁹ If ten^(A) people are left in one house, they too will die.

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.”