Exodus 2:23

God Hears Israel's Groaning

²² And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land. ²³ Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God. ²⁴ And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

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Cry for Help

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O God

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Jacob

James 5:4

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

Acts 7:30

At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

Genesis 18:20-21

And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

Exodus 7:7

And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

Genesis 4:10

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

Genesis 16:11

And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

Exodus 3:7-9

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

Exodus 4:19

And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

Exodus 22:22-27

Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

Numbers 20:16

And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

Deuteronomy 24:15

Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

Deuteronomy 26:6-7

And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

Judges 10:11-12

And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines

Nehemiah 9:9

And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;

Psalm 12:5

Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Psalm 18:6

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

Psalm 81:6-7

I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

Psalm 107:19-20

Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

Isaiah 19:20

And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.

Matthew 2:19-20

But when Herod was dead, an angel of the Lord came in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

Acts 12:23-24

And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.