Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;
Exodus 1:14 - Revised Standard Version and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar, brick, and all kinds of work in the field. All their service was with harshness and severity. American Standard Version (1901) and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor. Common English Bible They made their lives miserable with hard labor, making mortar and bricks, doing field work, and by forcing them to do all kinds of other cruel work. Catholic Public Domain Version And they led their life directly into bitterness, with hard work in clay and brick, and with all kinds of servitude, so that they were being overwhelmed with the works of the land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth. |
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;
he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
though they stay among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.
“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-amses.
Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
In the course of those many days the king of Egypt died. And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage, and cried out for help, and their cry under bondage came up to God.
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel bondage.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord of hosts: “O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they smite with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.”
Now therefore what have I here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, says the Lord, and continually all the day my name is despised.
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!
how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers;
He dealt craftily with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, that they might not be kept alive.
I have surely seen the ill-treatment of my people that are in Egypt and heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
And the Egyptians treated us harshly, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.
But the Lord has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own possession, as at this day.
She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.