Exodus 2:23
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God Hears Israel's Groaning
23 (A)During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel (B)groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. (C)Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
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James 5:4
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4 Behold, (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (B)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (C)the Lord of hosts.
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Genesis 18:20-21
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20 Then the Lord said, “Because (A)the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, 21 (B)I will go down to see whether they have done altogether[a] according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, (C)I will know.”
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- Genesis 18:21 Or they deserve destruction; Hebrew they have made a complete end
Deuteronomy 26:6-7
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6 And (A)the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. 7 Then (B)we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
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Exodus 3:7-9
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7 Then the Lord said, (A)“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their (B)taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and (C)I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and (D)to bring them up out of that land to a (E)good and broad land, a land (F)flowing with milk and honey, to the place of (G)the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, (H)the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the (I)oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
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Acts 7:30
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30 “Now when forty years had passed, (A)an angel appeared to him (B)in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
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Psalm 18:6
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6 (A)In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I cried for help.
From his (B)temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.
Psalm 12:5
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5 “Because (A)the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
(B)I will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will place him in the (C)safety for which he longs.”
Exodus 22:22-27
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22 (A)You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you do mistreat them, and they (B)cry out to me, I will surely (C)hear their cry, 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and (D)your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
25 (E)“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. 26 (F)If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he (G)cries to me, I will hear, for I am (H)compassionate.
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Nehemiah 9:9
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9 (A)“And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard (B)their cry at the Red Sea,
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Genesis 16:11
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11 And the angel of the Lord said to her,
“Behold, you are pregnant
and shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,[a]
(A)because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
Footnotes
- Genesis 16:11 Ishmael means God hears
Genesis 4:10
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10 And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood (A)is crying to me from the ground.
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Acts 12:23-24
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23 Immediately (A)an angel of the Lord struck him down, because (B)he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
24 But (C)the word of God increased and multiplied.
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Matthew 2:19-20
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The Return to Nazareth
19 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for (A)those who sought the child's life are dead.”
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Isaiah 19:20
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20 (A)It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, (B)he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them.
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Psalm 81:6-7
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6 “I (A)relieved your[a] shoulder of (B)the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
7 In distress you (C)called, and I delivered you;
I (D)answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I (E)tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 81:6 Hebrew his; also next line
Judges 10:11-12
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11 And the Lord said to the people of Israel, “Did I not save you (A)from the Egyptians and (B)from the Amorites, (C)from the Ammonites and (D)from the Philistines? 12 The Sidonians also, and (E)the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I (F)saved you out of their hand.
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Deuteronomy 24:15
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15 (A)You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), (B)lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.
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Numbers 20:16
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16 And (A)when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and (B)sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
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Psalm 107:19-20
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19 (A)Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
20 He (B)sent out his word and (C)healed them,
and (D)delivered them from their destruction.
Exodus 7:7
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7 Now Moses was (A)eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
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Exodus 4:19
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19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for (A)all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
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Isaiah 5:7
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7 (A)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;[a]
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry![b]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
- Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike
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