The Lord said, “I have surely (A)seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. So I have come down (B)to deliver them from the [a]power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a (C)good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of (D)the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 3:8 Lit hand

12 For he will (A)deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The [a]afflicted also, and him who has no helper.
13 He will have (B)compassion on the poor and needy,
And the [b]lives of the needy he will save.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 72:12 Or humble
  2. Psalm 72:13 Lit souls