34 And our kings and our princes, our priests and our fathers have not done thy Law, nor regarded thy commandments, nor thy protestations, wherewith thou hast [a]protested among them.

35 And they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou showedst unto them, and in the large and fat land which thou didst set before them, and have not converted from their evil works.

36 Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers, to eat the [b]fruit thereof, and the goodness thereof, behold, we are servants therein.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:34 That thou wouldest destroy them, except they would return to thee, as verse 26.
  2. Nehemiah 9:36 That is, to be the Lord’s therof.

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