Nehemiah 5:2-4

International Standard Version

² because certain of them kept claiming, “Since we have so many sons and daughters, we must get some grain so we can eat and survive.”

³ Others were saying, “We’re having to mortgage our fields, our vineyards, and our homes so we can buy grain during this famine.”

⁴ Still others were saying “We’ve borrowed money against our fields and vineyards to pay the king’s taxes.