But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
- KJV And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
- NKJV And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
- NASB But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.
- NLT But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.
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Quick answer
God promised to judge the nation that enslaved Israel and bring His people out with great wealth. Affliction would end in deliverance and justice.
Overview
The Lord pledges both to punish the oppressor and to liberate His people, fulfilled when He judged Egypt and Israel left laden with plunder. This shows God's faithfulness to deliver and His justice against those who harm His people. The exodus becomes the great Old Testament picture of redemption, anticipating the greater deliverance from sin through Christ.
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Cross-references · 18
- Neh 9:9–11You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.
- Exod 6:5–6Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
- Exod 12:32–38Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”
- Josh 24:4–7and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
- Exod 7:1–14The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
- Ps 135:14For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
- Deut 4:20Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
- 1 Sam 12:8When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
- Deut 6:22Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
- Deut 7:18–19But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:
- Josh 24:17For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.
- Ps 105:27–37They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Deut 11:2–4Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm;
- Gen 46:1–34So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
- Exod 3:21–22And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
- Ps 51:4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
- Ps 78:43–51when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
- Ps 135:9He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.
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