Exodus 2:23

New American Bible - revised edition

A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out, and from their bondage their cry for help went up to God.

Cross References

Genesis 16:11

Then the Lord’s angel said to her: “You are now pregnant and shall bear a son; you shall name him Ishmael, For the Lord has heeded your affliction.

Genesis 4:10

God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!

Nehemiah 9:9

You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, you heard their cry by the Red Sea;

Job 35:9

In great oppression people cry out; they call for help because of the power of the great,

Psalm 102:1

The prayer of one afflicted and wasting away whose anguish is poured out before the Lord.

Psalm 102:2

Lord, hear my prayer; let my cry come to you.

Psalm 12:5

Those who say, “By our tongues we prevail; when our lips speak, who can lord it over us?”

Psalm 18:6

The cords of Sheol encircled me; the snares of death lay in wait for me.

Exodus 1:14

making life bitter for them with hard labor, at mortar and brick and all kinds of field work—cruelly oppressed in all their labor. Command to the Midwives.

Exodus 4:19

Then the Lord said to Moses in Midian: Return to Egypt, for all those who sought your life are dead.

Exodus 6:5

Now that I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians have reduced to slavery, I am mindful of my covenant.

Exodus 6:9

But when Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not listen to him because of their dejection and hard slavery.

Exodus 7:7

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh. The Staff Turned into a Serpent.

Isaiah 19:20

This will be a sign and witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt, so that when they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior to defend and deliver them.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Numbers 20:16

When we cried to the Lord, he heard our cry and sent an angel who led us out of Egypt. Now here we are at Kadesh, a town at the edge of your territory.

Acts 7:30

“Forty years later, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush.

Deuteronomy 24:15

On each day you shall pay the servant’s wages before the sun goes down, since the servant is poor and is counting on them. Otherwise the servant will cry to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty. Individual Responsibility.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Judges 4:3

But the Israelites cried out to the Lord; for with his nine hundred iron chariots Jabin harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

1 Samuel 12:8

When Jacob and his sons went to Egypt and the Egyptians oppressed them, your ancestors cried out to the Lord. The Lord then sent Moses and Aaron to bring them out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

1 Samuel 9:16

At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin whom you are to anoint as ruler of my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. I have looked upon my people; their cry has come to me.