John Trapp on Nehemiah 9:35

Verſe 35. For they have not ſerved thee in their Kingdom] As David did, who held it his higheſt honour to be the ſervant of the Lord: and as thoſe three famous Chriſtian Emperours, Conſtantine, Valentinian, Pſal. 36. Socrat. and Theodoſius, who ſtiled themſelves The vaſſailes of Jeſus Chriſt.

And in thy great goodneſſe that thou gaveſt them] In the abundance of all things, Deut. 28.47. they ſhould have conſidered, The more wages, the more work: and that thus to requite the Lord, was to come under the cenſure of a fooliſh people and unwiſe, Deut. 32.6. yea, of idle and evil ſervants, Mat. 25.26.

And in the large and fat land] But Jeſhurun waxed fat and kicked: fulneſſe bred forgetfulneſſe, ſaturity, ſecurity, Deut. 32.15. therefore he was worthily pent up and pined in a ſtrange land; where he had liberty little enough, and priſoners pittance.

Neither turned they from their wicked works] They quarrel not with their faults, but with their friends that reprove them; they turne not to him from whom they had deeply revolted. Their impenitency maketh their ſinnes mortal, ſaith Saint John, 1 Epiſt. 5.16. immortal, ſaith Saint Paul, Rom. 2.5. they die in their ſinnes, as did thoſe Jewes in the Goſpel, and periſh for ever, John 8.21.