But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out 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.
- BSB But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
- NKJV And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great 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 9:9–11“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
- Exod 6:5–6Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
- Exod 12:32–38Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
- Josh 24:4–7I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
- Exod 7:1–14Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
- Ps 135:14For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.
- Deut 4:20But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
- 1 Sam 12:8“When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.
- Deut 6:22and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
- Deut 7:18–19you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
- Josh 24:17for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.
- Ps 105:27–37They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Deut 11:2–4Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
- Gen 46:1–34Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
- Exod 3:21–22I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
- Ps 51:4Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
- Ps 78:43–51how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
- Ps 135:9Who sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants;
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