So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
- KJV And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
- NKJV Then we cried out to the Lord God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.
- NASB Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our wretched condition, our trouble, and our oppression;
- NLT we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. He heard our cries and saw our hardship, toil, and oppression.
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Quick answer
Israel cried out to the Lord, and He heard and saw their affliction. God responds to the cries of His suffering people.
Overview
This confession recalls how God listened to Israel's groaning in Egypt and took note of their misery (Exodus 2:23-25). It testifies that the covenant Lord is attentive and compassionate toward the oppressed. The God who heard Israel's cry is the same God who hears all who call on Him for salvation through Christ (Romans 10:13).
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- Exod 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Exod 3:9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
- Eph 3:20–21Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- 1 Sam 9:16“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”
- Ps 119:132Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
- Exod 6:5Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
- Jer 33:2“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:
- Exod 4:31and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
- Ps 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
- Ps 103:1–2Of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul; all that is within me, bless His holy name.
- Ps 116:1–4I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.
- 2 Sam 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
- Ps 102:19–20For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
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