Nehemiah 9:37

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Its plentiful harvest is taken by kings you placed over us because of our sins. Our suffering is unbearable, because they do as they wish to us and our livestock.

Cross References

Ezra 4:13

You should also know that if the walls are completed and the city is rebuilt, the Jews won't pay any kind of taxes, and there will be less money in your treasury.

Ezra 6:8

Starting at once, I am ordering you to help the leaders by paying their expenses from the tax money collected in Western Province.

Ezra 7:24

We want you to know that no priests, Levites, musicians, guards, temple servants, or any other temple workers will have to pay any kind of taxes.

Nehemiah 5:8

by saying, “We have tried to buy back all of our people who were sold into exile. But here you are, selling more of them for us to buy back!” The officials and leaders did not say a word, because they knew this was true.

Lamentations 5:5

We are terribly ill-treated; we are worn out and can find no rest.

Leviticus 26:17

and I will turn from you and let you be destroyed by your attackers. You will even run at the very rumour of attack.

John 8:33

They answered, “We are Abraham's children! We have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say we will be set free?”

Deuteronomy 28:33

You will work hard on your farms, but everything you harvest will be eaten by foreigners, who will ill-treat you and abuse you for the rest of your life.

Deuteronomy 28:39

You will plant vineyards and work hard at taking care of them, but you won't gather any grapes, much less get any wine, and the vines themselves will be eaten by worms.

Deuteronomy 28:48

he will send enemies to attack you and make you their slaves. Then you will live in poverty with nothing to eat, drink, or wear, and your owners will work you to death.

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will take your cattle, sheep, goats, grain, wine, and olive oil, then leave you to starve.