尼希米帮助穷苦人

那时,民众和他们的妻子都抱怨他们的犹太同胞。 有的说:“我们和我们的儿女人口众多,需要粮食来活命。” 有的说:“因为饥荒的缘故,我们要将田地、葡萄园和房屋作抵押来获取粮食。”

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Nehemiah Helps the Poor

Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields,(A) our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”(B)

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And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

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