Nehemiah 9:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Here we are, slaves to this day, slaves in the land that you gave to our ancestors to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Behold, we are slaves this day, and as for the land that You gave to our fathers to eat the fruit and the good of it, behold, we are slaves in it.

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.

Common English Bible

So now today we are slaves, slaves in the land that you gave to our ancestors to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Behold, we ourselves this day are servants. And the land, which you gave to our fathers so that they might eat its bread and have its good things, we ourselves are servants within it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Behold, we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof; and we ourselves are servants in it.

Nehemiah 9:36 Cross References

2 Chronicles 12:8

Nevertheless, they shall be his servants, so that they may know the difference between serving me and serving the kingdoms of other lands.”

Ezra 9:9

For we are slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to give us new life to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:4

We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.

Lamentations 5:5

With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary; we are given no rest.

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.