Nehemiah 9:36

New English Translation

“So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy its good things – we are slaves!

Cross References

2 Chronicles 12:8

Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.”

Ezra 9:9

Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us to restore the temple of our God and to raise up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:4

We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

Lamentations 5:5

We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.

Deuteronomy 28:48

instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.