Nehemiah 9:36

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

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  • Deut 28:48 : 48 For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.
  • Ezra 9:9 : 9 For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 12:8 : 8 But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

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    37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

    38 And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.

  • Lam 5:6-8
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    6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

    7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

  • Neh 9:32-35
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    32 And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

    33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

    34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

    35 For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

  • Neh 5:4-5
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    4 And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

    5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

  • 7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

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    5 We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:

    6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.

    7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

    8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.

    9 With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

    10 And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.

    11 And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

    12 And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.

    13 As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.

    14 So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

    15 And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.

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    9 For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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  • 10 Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have made yours by your great power and by your strong hand.

  • 9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

  • 11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

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    6 Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.

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  • 19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

  • 20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

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    2 See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.

    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

  • 11 So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.

  • 25 And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.

  • 9 And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 23 Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.

  • 6 If it is good or if it is evil, we will be guided by the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you; so that it may be well for us when we give ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • 37 And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;

  • 27 Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin:

  • 16 O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

  • 18 Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

  • 9 If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.

  • 7 And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the crushing weight of our work:

  • 25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.