²⁷ For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am ^(A)gracious.

⁶ And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord ^(A)God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in ^(B)goodness and ^(C)truth,

⁹ For if you return to the Lord, your brethren and your children will be treated with ^(A)compassion by those who lead them captive, so that they may come back to this land; for the Lord your God is ^(B)gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face from you if you ^(C)return to Him.”

²³ If you afflict them in any way, and they ^(A)cry at all to Me, I will surely ^(B)hear their cry;

²⁰ And ^(A)it will be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and He will send them a ^(B)Savior and a Mighty One, and He will deliver them.

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.