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,
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.
Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
“And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea,
If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
“Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me.”
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.”
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