“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’”
Amos 6:10 (WEB)
Context Reading
8“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies:“I abhor the pride of Jacob,and detest his fortresses.Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it. 9It will happen that if ten men remain in one house,they will die. 10“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’ 11“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces,and the little house into bits. 12Do horses run on the rocky crags?Does one plow there with oxen?But you have turned justice into poison,and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,