Nehemiah 9:36-38

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁶ Behold we ourselves this day are bondmen: and the land, which thou gavest our fathers, to eat the bread thereof, and the good things thereof, and we ourselves are servants in it.

³⁷ And the fruits thereof grow up for the kings, whom thou hast set over us for our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our beasts, according to their will, and we are in great tribulation.

³⁸ And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.