5. Then I returned home and washed, so as to purify myself. In deep sorrow I ate my dinner.
6. I was reminded of what the prophet Amos had said to the people of Bethel:“Your festivals will be turned into funerals,and your glad songs will become cries of grief.”I began to weep.
7. After sunset I went out, dug a grave, and buried the man.
8. My neighbours thought I was mad. “Haven't you learnt anything?” they asked. “You have already been in danger once for burying the dead, and you would have been killed if you had not run away. But here you are doing the same thing all over again.”