And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
And he said to Abram, Know with certainty that your descendents shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
And it came to pass in the course of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the forced labor, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the forced labor.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.
But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you; who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid down your body like the ground, and like the street, to those who went over.
Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people are taken away for nothing? those who rule over them make them to howl, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your servants for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and strip their skin off from them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as if for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
The same dealt deceitfully with our kindred, and treated our fathers badly, so that they cast out their young children, in order that they might not live.
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.
But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as you are this day.