²⁵ God ^(A)saw the people of Israel—and God ^(B)knew.

³¹ And the people ^(A)believed; and when they heard that the Lord had ^(B)visited the people of Israel and that he had ^(C)seen their affliction, ^(D)they bowed their heads and worshiped.

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.

²⁵ “Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, ^(A)to take away my reproach among people.”

¹² It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me,^[a] and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”

^23 (A)And then will I declare to them, ‘I ^(B)never knew you; ^(C)depart from me, ^(D)you workers of lawlessness.’