Exodus 5:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² Then Moses turned to the Lord and said, “O my Lord, why have you mistreated this people? Why did you ever send me?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Then Moses turned again to the Lord and said, O Lord, why have You dealt evil to this people? Why did You ever send me?

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

Common English Bible

²² Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “My Lord, why have you abused this people? Why did you send me for this?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And Moses returned to the Lord, and he said: "Lord, why have you afflicted this people? Why have you sent me?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? Wherefore hast thou sent me?

Exodus 5:22 Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Psalm 73:25

Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire other than you.

Exodus 17:4

So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do for this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Jeremiah 20:7

O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed; you have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Jeremiah 4:10

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God, how utterly you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ even while the sword is at the throat!”

Habakkuk 2:3

For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Numbers 11:11

So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

Joshua 7:7

Joshua said, “Ah, Lord God! Why have you brought this people across the Jordan at all, to hand us over to the Amorites so as to destroy us? Would that we had been content to settle beyond the Jordan!

1 Samuel 30:6

David was in great danger, for the people spoke of stoning him because all the people were bitter in spirit for their sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.