Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said to them, You require interest, every one from his brother. And I called a great assembly against them.
Their widows are multiplied to me more than the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a plunderer at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
And if your brother has become poor, and falls on hard times with you; then you shall relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your lap. For with the same measure that you use it shall be measured to you again.
To a stranger you may lend upon interest; but to your brother you shall not lend upon interest: that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land to which you go to possess it.
When you shall vow a vow unto the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.