5
Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness,
6
Remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.
7
Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.
8
But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter: who fled away; and yet, lo, he burieth the dead again.
9
The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted and my face was uncovered:
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.