Nehemiah 9:30-37

New King James Version

³⁰Yet for many years You had patience with them,
And ^[a]testified ^(A)against them by Your Spirit ^(B)in Your prophets.
Yet they would not listen;
^(C)Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
³¹Nevertheless in Your great mercy
^(D)You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them;
For You are God, gracious and merciful.

³²“Now therefore, our God,
The great, the ^(E)mighty, and awesome God,
Who keeps covenant and mercy:
Do not let all the ^[b]trouble seem small before You
That has come upon us,
Our kings and our princes,
Our priests and our prophets,
Our fathers and on all Your people,
^(F)From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
³³However ^(G)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But ^(H)we have done wickedly.
³⁴Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.
³⁵For they have ^(I)not served You in their kingdom,
Or in the many good things that You gave them,
Or in the large and rich land which You set before them;
Nor did they turn from their wicked works.

³⁶“Here ^(J)we are, servants today!
And the land that You gave to our fathers,
To eat its fruit and its bounty,
Here we are, servants in it!
³⁷And ^(K)it yields much increase to the kings
You have set over us,
Because of our sins;
Also they have ^(L)dominion over our bodies and our cattle
At their pleasure;
And we are in great distress.