Exodus 2:23
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23 After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.(A)
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James 5:4
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4 Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Exodus 3:7-9
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7 Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,(A) 8 and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.(B) 9 The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.(C)
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Genesis 18:20-21
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20 Then the Lord said, “How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin!(A) 21 I must go down and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me, and if not, I will know.”(B)
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Acts 7:30
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30 “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.
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Deuteronomy 26:6-7
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6 When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us,(A) 7 we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.(B)
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Matthew 2:19-20
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The Return from Egypt
19 When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, 20 “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”
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Isaiah 19:20
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20 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, he will send them a savior and will defend and deliver them.(A)
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Psalm 107:19-20
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19 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress;
20 he sent out his word and healed them
and delivered them from destruction.(A)
Psalm 81:6-7
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Psalm 18:6
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6 In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.(A)
Psalm 12:5
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5 “Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
I will now rise up,” says the Lord;
“I will place them in the safety for which they long.”(A)
Nehemiah 9:9
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9 “And you saw the distress of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.[a](A)
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- 9.9 Or Sea of Reeds
Judges 10:11-12
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11 And the Lord said to the Israelites, “Did I not deliver you[a] from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?(A) 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.(B)
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- 10.11 Heb lacks Did I not deliver you
Deuteronomy 24:15
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15 You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(A)
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Numbers 20:16
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16 and when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt, and here we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.(A)
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Exodus 22:22-27
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22 You shall not abuse any widow or orphan.(A) 23 If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry;(B) 24 my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.(C)
25 “If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.(D) 26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down, 27 for it may be your neighbor’s only clothing to use as a cover. In what else shall that person sleep? And when your neighbor cries out to me, I will listen, for I am compassionate.
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Exodus 4:19
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19 The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who were seeking your life are dead.”(A)
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Genesis 16:11
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11 And the angel of the Lord said to her,
“Now you have conceived and shall bear a son;
you shall call him Ishmael,[a]
for the Lord has given heed to your affliction.(A)
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- 16.11 That is, God hears
Genesis 4:10
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10 And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!(A)
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Acts 12:23-24
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23 And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.(A)
24 But the word of God continued to advance and gain adherents.(B)
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Isaiah 5:7
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7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are his cherished garden;
he expected justice
but saw bloodshed;
righteousness
but heard a cry!(A)
Exodus 7:7
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7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.(A)
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