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:
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 2:23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
- Exod 3:9Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
- Eph 3:20–21Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
- 1 Sam 9:16To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
- Ps 119:132Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
- Exod 6:5And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
- Jer 33:2Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
- Exod 4:31And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
- Ps 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
- Ps 103:1–2Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
- Ps 116:1–4I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
- 2 Sam 16:12It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
- Ps 102:19–20For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
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