Nehemia 9:37

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tanah itu menghasilkan banyak bagi raja-raja yang telah Kautetapkan atas kami karena dosa-dosa kami. Mereka itu memerintah sekehendak hati atas diri kami dan ternak kami, sehingga kami dalam kesesakan besar."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tanah itu menghasilkan banyak bagi raja-raja yang telah Kautetapkan atas kami karena dosa-dosa kami. Mereka itu memerintah sekehendak hati atas diri kami dan ternak kami, sehingga kami dalam kesesakan besar."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka tanah itu memperbanyakkan hasilnya bagi segala raja yang telah Kauangkat atas kami oleh karena segala dosa kami; maka mereka itu memerintahkan badan kami dan segala binatang kami dengan sekehendak hatinya, maka kamipun di dalam hal kepicikan sangat.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Then stoode vpon the stayres of the Leuites, Iesua, Bani, Cadmiel, Sabaniah, Bunni, Serebiah, Bani, and Chanani, and cryed loude vnto the Lorde their God: ⁵ And the Leuites, Iesua, and Cadmiel, Bani, and Hasabnia, Serebiah, and Hodia, Sebania, and Phathahia, sayde: Stand vp, and prayse the Lorde your God for euer, and let thankes be geue vnto the name of thy glory, which excelleth all thankes geuing and prayse. ⁶ Thou art Lorde alone, thou hast made heauen and the heauen of all heauens with all their hoast, the earth and all thinges that are therein, the sea & all that is therin, & thou preseruest them al, & the hoast of heauen worshippeth thee. ⁷ Thou art, O Lorde, the God that hast chosen Abraham, and broughtest him out of Ur in Chaldea, and calledst him Abraham: ⁸ And foundest his heart faithfull before thee, & madest a couenaunt with him, to geue vnto his seede the lande of the Chanaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Iebusites, and Gergesites, and hast made good thy wordes: for thou art righteous, ⁹ And hast considered the miserie of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their complaynt by the red sea: ¹⁰ And shewed tokens and wonders vpon Pharao and all his seruauntes, and on all the people of his lande: For thou knowest that they were presumptuous and cruell against them: and so madest thou thee a name as it is this day. ¹¹ And the [red] sea diddest thou deuide in sunder before them, so that they went through the middest of the sea drye shod: and their persecuters threwest thou into the deepe, as a stone in the mightie waters: ¹² And leddest them on the day time in a cloudie piller, and on the night season in a piller of fyre, to shewe them light in the way that they went. ¹³ Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and speakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgementes, true lawes, good commaundementes and statutes:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it yieldeth: Deuteronomy 28:33, Deuteronomy 28:39, Deuteronomy 28:51, Ezra 4:13, Ezra 6:8, Ezra 7:24

dominion: Nehemiah 5:8, Leviticus 26:17, Deuteronomy 28:48, John 8:33

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:14 - General Deuteronomy 28:29 - thou shalt be 2 Chronicles 33:11 - of the king Ezra 9:7 - into the hand Ezra 9:9 - we were bondmen Nehemiah 1:3 - in great Nehemiah 5:4 - the king's tribute Psalms 107:12 - he brought Isaiah 5:17 - strangers Isaiah 49:24 - lawful captive Lamentations 1:1 - how is Lamentations 5:5 - labour Ezekiel 11:9 - and deliver Ezekiel 17:14 - the kingdom Ezekiel 19:14 - she hath Matthew 22:17 - is Mark 12:14 - is it Luke 20:16 - shall give Luke 20:22 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us, because of our sins,.... Though a very fruitful land, and brought forth much, yet not for them, but for foreign kings, that had the sovereignty over them, and enacted much toll, tribute, and custom from them, which greatly lessened the profit of the earth to them:

also they have dominion over our bodies; and could oblige them to work for them, and do any service they should command:

and over our cattle, at their pleasure; to carry burdens for them, or ride post with them:

and we are in great distress; being servants and tributaries to a foreign power.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 37. It yieldeth much increase unto the kings — Good and fruitful as the land is, yet it profits us little; as the chief profits on all things go to the kings of Persia.

Over our bodies — Exacting personal and feudal services from us, and from our cattle; and this not by any fixed rate, or rule, of so much rent, so much labour, or boons; but at their pleasure; so that we can neither call our persons, our time, our land, nor our cattle, our own: therefore we are in great distress. Miserable are the people that live under such a government. Think of this, ye Britons! think of your liberties and rights. Compare them with any other nation under heaven, and see what a balance is in your favour. Almost all the nations of the earth acknowledge Britons the most happy of all men. May I not say,

O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint!

"How exceedingly happy would you be, could

you but consider your many advantages!"