‘May the Lord take note of you and judge,’ they said to them, ‘because you have made us reek to Pharaoh and his officials #– #putting a sword in their hand to kill us! ’
Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.’
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labour, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labour ascended to God.