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4:13. I set the people in the place behind the wall round about in
order, with their swords, and spears, and bows.
4:14. And I looked and rose up: and I said to the chief men and the
magistrates, and to the rest of the common people: be not afraid of
them. Remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your
brethren, your sons, and your daughters, and your wives, and your
houses.
4:15. And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that the thing had
been told us, that God defeated their counsel. And we returned all of us
to the walls, every man to his work.
4:16. And it came to pass from that day forward, that half of their
young men did the work, and half were ready for to fight, with spears,
and shields, and bows, and coats of mail, and the rulers were behind
them in all the house of Juda.
4:17. Of them that built on the wall and that carried burdens, and that
laded: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held
a sword.
4:18. For every one of the builders was girded with a sword about his
reins. And they built, and sounded with a trumpet by me.
4:19. And I said to the nobles, and to the magistrates, and to the rest
of the common people: The work is great and wide, and we are separated
on the wall one far from another:
4:20. In what place soever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, run
all thither unto us: our God will fight for us.
4:21. And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears
from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.
4:22. At that time also I said to the people: Let every one with his
servant stay in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take our turns in the
night, and by day, to work.
4:23. Now I and my brethren, and my servants, and the watchmen that
followed me, did not put off our clothes: only every man stripped
himself when he was to be washed.
2 Esdras Chapter 5
Nehemias blameth the rich, for their oppressing the poor. His
exhortation, and bounty to his countrymen.
5:1. Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against
their brethren the Jews.
5:2. And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very
many: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and
live.
5:3. And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our
vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine.
5:4. And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and
let us give up our fields and vineyards:
5:5. And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children
as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our
daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have
we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men
possess.
5:6. And I was exceedingly angry when I heard their cry according to
these words.
5:7. And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and
magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your
brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,
5:8. And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our
ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will
you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their
peace, and found not what to answer.
5:9. And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not
in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the
Gentiles our enemies?
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