new(i)
1
H1419
And there was a great
H6818
shriek
H5971
of the people
H802
and of their wives
H251
against their brethren
H3064
the Judeans.
2
H3426
For there were
H559 [H8802]
that said,
H1121
We, our sons,
H1323
and our daughters,
H7227
are many:
H3947 [H8799]
therefore we take up
H1715
grain
H398 [H8799]
for them, that we may eat,
H2421 [H8799]
and live.
3
H3426
Some also there were
H559 [H8802]
that said,
H6148 [H8802]
We have mortgaged
H7704
our lands,
H3754
vineyards,
H1004
and houses,
H3947 [H8799]
that we might buy
H1715
grain,
H7458
because of the famine.
4
H3426
There were
H559 [H8802]
also that said,
H3867 [H8804]
We have borrowed
H3701
money
H4428
for the king's
H4060
tax,
H7704
and that upon our lands
H3754
and vineyards.
5
H1320
Yet now our flesh
H1320
is as the flesh
H251
of our brethren,
H1121
our sons
H1121
as their sons:
H3533 [H8802]
and, lo, we bring into bondage
H1121
our sons
H1323
and our daughters
H5650
to be servants,
H1323
and some of our daughters
H3426
are
H3533 [H8737]
brought to bondage
H410 H3027
already: neither is it in our power
H312
to redeem them; for other men
H7704
have our lands
H3754
and vineyards.
6
H3966
And I was very
H2734 [H8799]
angry
H8085 [H8804]
when I heard
H2201
their outcry
H1697
and these words.
7
H4427 [H8735]
Then I consulted
H3820
with myself,
H7378 [H8799]
and I rebuked
H2715
the nobles,
H5461
and the rulers,
H559 [H8799]
and said
H5378 H5383 H5375 [H8801]
to them, Ye exact
H4855
interest,
H376
every one
H251
of his brother.
H5414 [H8799]
And I set
H1419
a great
H6952
congregation against them.
8
H559 [H8799]
And I said
H1767
to them, We after our ability
H7069 [H8804]
have redeemed
H251
our brethren
H3064
the Judeans,
H4376 [H8737]
who were sold
H1471
to the nations;
H4376 [H8799]
and will ye even sell
H251
your brethren?
H4376 [H8738]
or shall they be sold
H2790 [H8686]
to us? Then they held their peace,
H4672 [H8804]
and found
H1697
nothing to answer.
9
H559 [H8799]
Also I said,
H2896
That is not good
H1697
which
H6213 [H8802]
ye do:
H3212 [H8799]
ought ye not to walk
H3374
in the fear
H430
of our God
H2781
because of the reproach
H1471
of the nations
H341 [H8802]
our enemies?
10
H251
I likewise, my brethren,
H5288
and my servants,
H5383 [H8802]
might exact
H3701
of them money
H1715
and grain:
H5800 [H8799]
I pray you, let us stop
H4855
charging interest.
11
H7725 [H8685]
Restore,
H3117
I pray you, to them, even this day,
H7704
their lands,
H3754
their vineyards,
H2132
their oliveyards,
H1004
and their houses,
H3967
also the hundredth
H3701
part of the money,
H1715
and of the grain,
H8492
the wine,
H3323
and the oil,
H5383 [H8802]
that ye exact of them.
12
H559 [H8799]
Then said
H7725 [H8686]
they, We will restore
H1245 [H8762]
them, and will require
H6213 [H8799]
nothing of them; so will we do
H559 [H8802]
as thou sayest.
H7121 [H8799]
Then I called
H3548
the priests,
H7650 [H8686]
and took an oath
H6213 [H8800]
of them, that they should do
H1697
according to this promise.
13
H5287 [H8804]
Also I shook
H2684
my lap,
H559 [H8799]
and said,
H430
So God
H5287 [H8762]
shake out
H376
every man
H1004
from his house,
H3018
and from his labour,
H6965 [H8686]
that raiseth
H1697
not this promise,
H5287 [H8803]
even thus be he shaken out,
H7386
and emptied.
H6951
And all the congregation
H559 [H8799]
said,
H543
Amen,
H1984 [H8762]
and praised
H3068
the LORD.
H5971
And the people
H6213 [H8799]
did
H1697
according to this promise.
14
H3117
Moreover from the time
H6680 [H8765]
that I was appointed
H6346
to be their governor
H776
in the land
H3063
of Judah,
H6242
from the twentieth
H8141
year
H8147
even to the two
H7970
and thirtieth
H8141
year
H783
of Artaxerxes
H4428
the king,
H8147 H6240
that is, twelve
H8141
years,
H251
I and my brethren
H398 [H8804]
have not eaten
H3899
the bread
H6346
of the governor.
15
H7223
But the former
H6346
governors
H6440
that had been at the face of
H3513 [H8689]
me had laid a burden
H5971
upon the people,
H3947 [H8799]
and had taken
H3899
of them food
H3196
and wine,
H310
besides
H705
forty
H8255
shekels
H3701
of silver;
H1571
yea, even
H5288
their servants
H7980 [H8804]
bore rule
H5971
over the people:
H6213 [H8804]
but so did
H6440
not I, because
H3374
of the fear
H430
of God.
16
H2388 [H8689]
Yea, also I continued
H4399
in the work
H2346
of this wall,
H7069 [H8804]
neither bought
H7704
we any land:
H5288
and all my servants
H6908 [H8803]
were gathered
H4399
there to the work.
17
H7979
Moreover there were at my table
H3967
an hundred
H2572 H376
and fifty
H3064
of the Judeans
H5461
and rulers,
H935 [H8802]
besides those that came
H1471
to us from among the nations
H5439
that were about us.
18
H6213 [H8737]
Now that which was prepared
H3117
for me daily
H259
was one
H7794
ox
H8337
and six
H1305 [H8803]
choice
H6629
sheep;
H6833
also fowls
H6213 [H8738]
were prepared
H6235
for me, and once in ten
H3117
days
H7235 [H8687]
an abundance
H3196
of all sorts of wine:
H5973
yet for all
H1245 [H8765]
this I required
H3899
not the food
H6346
of the governor,
H5656
because the bondage
H3513 [H8804]
was heavy
H5971
upon this people.