Exo 2:23, 3:7, 9, Neh 5:1-5, Job 24:12, 34:28, Psa 12:5, 43:2, 55:2-3, 56:1-2 | ESV | STEP | During those many days the king of Egypt died , and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God .

Exodus 2:23

God Hears Israel’s Groaning

23 ^aDuring those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel ^bgroaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. ^cTheir cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

Exodus 3:7

7 Then the Lord said, ^d“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their ^etaskmasters. I know their sufferings,

Exodus 3:9

9 And now, behold, ^fthe cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the ^goppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor

1 Now there arose ^ha great outcry of the people and of their wives ⁱagainst their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for ^jthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now ^kour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet ^lwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Job 24:12

12 From out of the city the dying groan,
and the soul of ^mthe wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with ⁿwrong.

Job 34:28

28 so that they ^ocaused the cry of the poor to come to him,
and he ^pheard the cry of the afflicted—

Psalms 12:5

5 “Because ^qthe poor are plundered, because the needy groan,
^rI will now arise,” says the Lord;
“I will place him in the ^ssafety for which he longs.”

Psalms 43:2

2 For you are ^tthe God in whom I take refuge;
why have you ^urejected me?
Why do I ^vgo about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms 55:2-3

2 Attend to me, and answer me;
I am restless ^win my complaint and I ^xmoan,
3 because of the noise of the enemy,
because of the oppression of the wicked.
For they ^ydrop trouble upon me,
and in anger they bear a grudge against me.

Psalms 56:1-2

In God I Trust

To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A ^zMiktam ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} of David, when the ^abPhilistines seized him in Gath.

1 ^acBe gracious to me, O God, for man ^adtramples on me;
all day long an attacker oppresses me;
2 my enemies trample on me all day long,
for many attack me proudly.