And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.
Parallel translations
- WEB Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
- KJV And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
- BSB Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
- NASB Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.
- NLT You can be sure that I have heard the groans of the people of Israel, who are now slaves to the Egyptians. And I am well aware of my covenant with them.
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God has heard Israel's groaning under bondage and remembered His covenant. He is moved by His people's suffering and bound by His promise to act.
Overview
God affirms that the cries of the enslaved have reached Him and that He has remembered His covenant, language signifying His intent to act on it. His remembering is not recollection of something forgotten but the moving forward to fulfill His pledge. This assures the suffering that God both sees their affliction and is committed by His own word to deliver them.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 2:24God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Ps 106:44–45Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
- Isa 63:9In 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 bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Luke 1:54He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
- Luke 1:72to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
- Exod 3:7Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
- Ps 105:8He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
- Gen 9:15and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Gen 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
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