1 Then there rose a great outcry of the people and their wives against certain of their Jewish kindred.
2 Some said: “We are forced to pawn our sons and daughters in order to get grain to eat that we may live.”
3 Others said: “We are forced to pawn our fields, our vineyards, and our houses, that we may have grain during the famine.”
4 Still others said: “To pay the king’s tax we have borrowed money on our fields and vineyards.