Nehemiah 9:36-38

American Standard Version

³⁶ Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it. ³⁷ And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. ³⁸ And ^[a]yet for all this we make a ^[b]sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, ^[c]seal unto it.