1 Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
2 There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
3 There were others who said, “We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”
4 Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.