7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
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He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. …
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-10)Now that Moses had put off his shoes (for, no doubt, he observed the orders given him, Exod. 3:5), and covered his face, God enters upon the particular business that was now to be concerted, which was the bringing of Israel out of Egypt. Now, after forty years of Israel’s bondage and Moses’s banishment, when we may suppose both he and they began to despair, they of being delivered and he of delive…
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