Exodus 6:5

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Summary

And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

The groaning

I have remembered

Bible References

The groaning

So God heard their groaning and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel).

The Lord said, “I have in fact seen the affliction (suffering, desolation) of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (oppressors); for I know their pain and suffering.

Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress
When He heard their cry;

In all their distress He was distressed,
And the angel of His presence saved them,
In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them;
And He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

I have remembered

So God heard their groaning and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel).

And God remembered and thought kindly of Noah and every living thing and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the land, and the waters receded.

and I will [compassionately] remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again will the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.

He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations,

And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],

“He has helped His servant Israel,
In remembrance of His mercy,