Nehemiah 9:35
For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gavest them, and in the large and fat land which you gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
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Context
33 Howbeit you just in all that is brought upon us; for you hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor hearkened unto your commandments and your testimonies, wherewith you didst testify against them.
35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gavest them, and in the large and fat land which you gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
36 Behold, we servants this day, and the land that you gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we servants in it:
37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom you hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we in great distress.