¹⁰ And likewise I, my brothers, and my young men are lending them money and grain. Please, let us forsake this usury. ¹¹ Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them.” ¹² Then they said, “We ^(A)will give it back and ^(B)will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you are saying.” So I called the priests and ^(C)made them swear that they would do according to this word.

⁸ The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after King Zedekiah had ^(A)cut a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to ^(B)proclaim ^[a]release to them: