^7 (A)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.

²³ Now it happened ^(A)in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel ^(B)groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and ^(C)their cry came up to God because of the bondage. ²⁴ So God ^(D)heard their groaning, and God ^(E)remembered His ^(F)covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵ And God ^(G)looked upon the children of Israel, and God ^(H)acknowledged them.

Moses at the Burning Bush^(I)

3 Now Moses was tending the flock of ^(J)Jethro his father-in-law, ^(K)the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to ^(L)Horeb, ^(M)the mountain of God. ² And ^(N)the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. ³ Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this ^(O)great sight, why the bush does not burn.”

⁴ So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called ^(P)to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

²⁰ Now ^(A)to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly ^(B)above all that we ask or think, ^(C)according to the power that works in us, ^21 (D)to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

⁹ Now therefore, behold, ^(A)the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the ^(B)oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

² “Thus says the Lord ^(A)who made it, the Lord who formed it to establish it ^(B)(the^[a] Lord is His name):