God Hears Israel's Groaning

^23 (A)During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel ^(B)groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. ^(C)Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

⁵ Moreover, ^(A)I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. ⁶ Say therefore to the people of Israel, ^(B)‘I am the Lord, and ^(C)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and ^(D)I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. ⁷ I ^(E)will take you to be my people, and ^(F)I will be your God, and you shall know that ^(G)I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out ^(H)from under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸ I will bring you into ^(I)the land that I ^(J)swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. ^(K)I am the Lord.’” ⁹ Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they ^(L)did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.