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.

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.