13Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.
Nehemiah 5 pivots from the external threat of opposition to an internal crisis: the wealthy Jewish nobles are exploiting their own people through usury and debt-slavery, even as the wall rises. Nehemiah confronts this injustice with righteous anger, forcing a public repentance an
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