Nehemiah 9:35-37

Good News Translation

³⁵ With your blessing, kings ruled your people
    when they lived in the broad, fertile land you gave them;
    but they failed to turn from sin and serve you.
³⁶ And now we are slaves in the land that you gave us,
    this fertile land which gives us food.
³⁷ What the land produces goes to the kings
    that you put over us because we sinned.
They do as they please with us and our livestock,
    and we are in deep distress!”