Nehemiah 9:32-38 ▼

32 And now, our God—the God the great, the mighty, and fearsome, keeping the covenant and the kindness, should not all the hardship that has found us seem little before Your face—for our kings, for our princes, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

33 And You are righteous over all that has come upon us, for faithfully You have acted, and we have been wicked.

34 And our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers, they have not done Your law, and they have not attended to Your commandments and to Your testimonies that You testified against them.

35 And they, in their kingdom, in your abundant goodness, that You gave to them, and in the land broad and rich that You gave before their face, they did not serve You, and not did they turn away from their evil deeds.

36 Behold! We are this day slaves, and the land that You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its goodness, behold—we are slaves in it.

37 And its produce is multiplying for the kings whom You have given to be over us in our sins, and over our bodies to be ruling, and over our livestock according to their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

38 And in all this we are cutting a firm covenant, and writing even on the sealed document our leaders, our Levites, and our priests.”