Exodus 2:23-24

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. 24And dGod heard their groaning, and God eremembered his covenant with fAbraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

2 Chronicles 33:11

11 gTherefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and hbound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

Job 36:8-9

8And if they are ibound in chains
and caught in the cords of affliction,
9then he declares to them their work
and their transgressions, that they are jbehaving arrogantly.

Psalms 105:18

18His kfeet were hurt with fetters;
his neck was put in a collar of iron;

Lamentations 3:6-7

6 lhe has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
7 mHe has walled me about so that nI cannot escape;
he has made my chains heavy;

Romans 6:20-21

20 oFor when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 pBut what fruit were you getting at that time from the things qof which you are now ashamed? rFor the end of those things is death.
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