Nehemiah 9:36-38

Darby Translation

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

³⁷ And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress.

³⁸ And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests are at the sealing.