Exodus 3:7

WEB

⁷The LORD 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.

KJV

⁷¶ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

BSB

⁷The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

FBV

⁷“I'm completely aware of the misery of my people in Egypt,” the Lord told him. “I have heard them crying out because of their taskmasters. I know how much they're suffering.

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Extra References

Psalms 145:19

¹⁹He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Psalms 106:44

⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

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. ²⁴God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵God saw the children of Israel, and God understood.

Psalms 34:6

⁶This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Nehemiah 9:9

⁹“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

Exodus 22:23

²³If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Genesis 29:32

³²Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because the LORD has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

Psalms 34:4

⁴I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Isaiah 63:9

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.

Exodus 1:11

¹¹Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.