God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
“Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”
And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”
He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.
And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
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