9. Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
10. I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
11. Please restore to them, even today, 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 charging them.”
12. Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.”Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
13. Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.”All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord. The people did according to this promise.