Nehemiah 9:36

The Scriptures 1998

“See, we are servants today! And the land that You gave to our fathers, to eat its fruit and the good of it, see, we are servants in it!

Cross References

Ezra 9:9

“For we were slaves, but in our bondage our Elohim did not forsake us, and extended kindness to us in the presence of the sovereigns of Persia, to revive us, to raise up the House of our Elohim, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Yehuḏ

Deuteronomy 28:48

you shall serve your enemies whom יהוה  sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

2 Chronicles 12:8

but they are to become his servants, so that they know My service and the service of the reigns of the lands.”

Lamentations 5:5

We have been pursued close onto our neck, We have laboured and had no rest.

Lamentations 5:4

We had to pay for our drinking water, And our wood comes at a price.