5
And when I returned I washed myself and ate my food in sorrow.
6
Then I remembered the prophecy of Amos, how he said, "Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your festivities into lamentation." And I wept.
7
When the sun had set I went and dug a grave and buried the body.
8
And my neighbors laughed at me and said, "He is no longer afraid that he will be put to death for doing this; he once ran away, and here he is burying the dead again!"
9
On the same night I returned from burying him, and because I was defiled I slept by the wall of the courtyard, and my face was uncovered.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.