Nehemiah 9:36

Modern English Version

“Behold, we are slaves today. The land that You gave to our fathers was for eating its fruit and its goodness. Behold, we have become slaves in it,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 12:8

For they will be slaves to him so that they experience My labor and the labor of the kingdoms of other lands.”

Ezra 9:9

For though we were slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, granting us a reviving for the rebuilding of the house of our God, for the repairing of its ruins, and for giving us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:4

We must pay for the water we drink; our wood is sold to us.

Lamentations 5:5

Our pursuers are at our necks; we labor and have no rest.

Deuteronomy 28:48

Therefore, you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and need of all things, and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.