Néhémie 9:36

Darby's French Translation

Voici, nous sommes aujourd'hui serviteurs; et quant au pays que tu donnas à nos pères pour qu'ils en mangeassent le fruit et les bons produits, voici, nous y sommes serviteurs;

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Voici, nous sommes aujourd'hui esclaves! Dans le pays que tu as donné à nos pères, pour en manger le fruit et les biens, voici, nous sommes esclaves!

Louis Segond (1910)
Et aujourd'hui, nous voici esclaves! Nous voici esclaves sur la terre que tu as donnée à nos pères, pour qu'ils jouissent de ses fruits et de ses biens!

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Voici, nous sommes aujourd'hui esclaves, même dans le pays que tu as donné à nos pères pour en manger le fruit et les biens; voici, nous y sommes esclaves.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:48, 2 Chronicles 12:8, Ezra 9:9

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:14 - General Deuteronomy 28:33 - The fruit Ezra 9:7 - into the hand Nehemiah 1:3 - in great Jeremiah 25:18 - as it Lamentations 5:5 - labour Ezekiel 11:9 - and deliver Ezekiel 17:14 - the kingdom Joel 2:17 - that Luke 20:16 - shall give John 8:33 - and were

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, we are servants this day,.... For though they had leave to return to their land, and rebuild their city and temple, yet they were still in subjection to the kings of Persia:

and for the land thou gavest unto our fathers, to eat the fruit thereof, and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it; though the rightful owners and proprietors of it by the gift of God to their ancestors, to hold it and enjoy the good of it, and yet were obliged to pay tribute for it to the kings of Persia, all excepting priests and Levites; see Ezra 6:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. Behold, we are servants — They had no king of their own: and were under the government of the kings of Persia, to whom they paid a regular tribute.