'Groaning' in the Bible
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.