aSee ch. 5:7-19
Exodus 1:13-16
13So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel awork as slaves 14and bmade their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.15Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16“When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”
Exodus 2:23-24
God Hears Israel’s Groaning
23 cDuring those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel dgroaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. eTheir cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24And fGod heard their groaning, and God gremembered his covenant with hAbraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.Exodus 3:7
7Then the Lord said, i“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their jtaskmasters. I know their sufferings,Psalms 137:1-2
How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?
1 By the waters of Babylon,there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2On the willows ▼
▼Or poplars
therewe hung up our lyres.
Isaiah 47:6
6 lI was angry with my people;I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
myou showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
Isaiah 51:20
20 nYour sons have fainted;they lie at the head of every street
like an oantelope pin a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
the rebuke of your God.
Isaiah 51:23
23 qand I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,rwho have said to you,
‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and syou have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to pass over.”
Jeremiah 50:17
17 t“Israel is a hunted sheep udriven away by lions. vFirst the king of Assyria wdevoured him, and now at last xNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon yhas gnawed his bones.
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