Innerleithen Traquair & Walkerburn Parish Church

``So the people come to Nehemiah and say We don't have enough food to stay alive There's loads of us and we don't have enough food Others say that they're actually mortgaging their fields and their homes They don't have enough money to buy food They're giving up the security of fields and homes that they have And for others it's taxes that are the problem The king might have let Nehemiah go But he still wants to be paid his tax money Still wants to be paid taxed by the people in the land that he controls You never escape taxes And so other people complain We've actually had to borrow money to pay the king's tax