“And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.”
Exodus 3:9 (BSB)
Context Reading
7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings. 8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey — the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.” 11But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”