9. (If there are ten men left in one house, they will all die.
10. And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, “Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear, “No, by . . . ,” he will interrupt and say, “Stop! Don’t even mention the name of the lord.”)
11. When the lord gives the command,homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.
12. Can horses gallop over boulders?Can oxen be used to plow them?But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poisonand the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
13. And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar.You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim by our own strength?”