Nehemiah 9:36

WEB

³⁶“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

KJV

³⁶Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

BSB

³⁶So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness— here we are as slaves!

FBV

³⁶Look at us now, slaves in the land you gave our forefathers to enjoy its fruit and all its good things. Look at us slaves here!

Extra References

Ezra 9:9

⁹For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 28:48

⁴⁸therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

2 Chronicles 12:8

⁸Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”