Nehemiah 9:36

Tree of Life Version

“But see, even today we are slaves! Slaves in the land that You gave to our ancestors to eat of its fruit and its bounty. We are slaves in it.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 12:8

However, they will become subjects to him so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of the earth.”

Ezra 9:9

Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, reviving us in order to restore the House of our God, to raise up its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:4

We pay silver for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

Lamentations 5:5

Our pursuers are at our necks. We are weary and have no rest.

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.