Nehemiah 9:37
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.
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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.
38 And because of all this we make a sure , and write ; and our princes, Levites, priests, seal .