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;
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- 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:
- 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.
- 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 2:23In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
- Exod 3:9Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
- Eph 3:20–21Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
- 1 Sam 9:16“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of 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 have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
- Exod 6:5Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
- Jer 33:2“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name, says:
- Exod 4:31The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
- Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Ps 103:1–2By David. Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
- Ps 116:1–4I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
- 2 Sam 16:12It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
- Ps 102:19–20For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
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